Natural around Marseille, Daumier showed in his youth an resistless inclination towards the artistic profession, which his father in vain tried to prevent by placing him foremost by using a huissier and subsequently using the bookseller. With mastered a techniques of lithography, Daumier started his artistic career by producing plates for music publishers, & illustrations for ad; followed by anon. act for publishers, where he followed a style of Charlet and displayed considerable enthusiasm for the Napoleonic legend.

Whilst, when you took a reign of Louis Philippe, Charles Philipon launched the funny journal, La Caricature, Daumier joined its staff, which involved such mighty creative person when Devéria, Raffet and Grandville, and began upon his pictural campaign of blistering caustic remark upon a foibles of the bourgeoisie, the corruption of the law & the incompetence of a blundering government. His impersonation of the king when Gargantua led to Daumier's imprisonment for six months at Ste Pelagic inside 1832. Presently fallowing, a publication of La Caricature was discontinued, however Philipon provided the fresh field for Daumier's activity whilst he founded a Le Charivari.

Daumier produced his social impersonation for Le Charivari, where he holds bourgeois society as much as ridicule in the figure of Robert Macaire, hero of the popular melodrama. In another series, ''50'histoire ancienne, he traaround at a pseudo-classicism which held the art of the time period in hobble. Inside 1848 Daumier embarked again in his political campaign, however in the service of Le Charivari'', which he left within 1860 and rejoined in 1864.

Around spite of his prodigious activity in a field of impersonation — the listing of Daumier's lithographed plates compiled within 1904 numbers no fewer than 3,958 — he as well painted. Except for a shopping truthfulness of his vision & a right directness of his brushwork, it would exist as hard to recognize the author of Robert Macaire, of Les Bas blue cheese, Les Bohémiens de Paris, & a Masquerade party, in the paintings of Christ & His Apostles (Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam), or within his Practiced Samaritan, Don Quixote & Sancho Panza, Christ Mocked, or in the sketches in the Ionides Collection at South Kensington.

However as a painter, Daumier, one of a pioneers of naturalism, did not meet successfully until a year prior to his dying within 1878, when M. Dur& Ruel collected his works for exhibition at his galleries and demonstrated a range of a talent of the human world health organization has been known as the "Michelangelo of caricature". At the period of the exhibition, Daumier was unsighted & sleep in a bungalow at Valmondois, which Corot placed at his disposal. It was there that he died.

An exhibition of his works was held at a École des Beaux-Arts in 1900.