The Politician André Dupin the Elder

Daumier was a self-taught caricaturist, painter and sculptor. The busts depicting André Dupin the Elder and Victor-Gabriel Prunelle belong to a series of thirtysix portraying famous politicians active at the beginning of the so-called July Monarchy (1830–1848). They were originally sculpted in clay and painted. Daumier used them as models for his political cariacactures, which were published in th…