From Britannica: Honoré Daumier, in full Honoré-Victorin Daumier, (born February 20/26, 1808, Marseille, France-died February 11, 1879, Valmondois), prolific French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society. His paintings, though hardly known during his lifetime, helped introduce techniques of Impressionism into modern art.
From Britannica: Honoré Daumier, in full Honoré-Victorin Daumier, (born February 20/26, 1808, Marseille, France-died February 11, 1879, Valmondois), prolific French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society. His paintings, though hardly known during his lifetime, helped introduce techniques of Impressionism into modern art.