After Honore Daumier, French, 1808 to 1879, an oil on canvas painting Un Avocat Plaidant, or The Pleading Lawyer, c. 1845. Housed in an old wooden frame with carved decor with a metal nameplate attached to the frame. Honore Victorin Daumier, a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the second Napoleonic Empire in 1870. He earned a living throughout most of his life producing caricatures and cartoons of political figures and satirizing the behavior of his countrymen in newspapers and periodicals, for which he became well known in his lifetime and is still known today. European Paintings And Wall Decor Collectibles.