Honoré Daumier was eight years old when his father, a glazier and frame maker who had decided to pursue his poetic talents in Paris, sent for the wife and three sons he lad left behind in Marseilles. In Paris, Daumier studied drawing with Alexandre Lenoir (1761-1839) and at the Académie Suisse. Around 1825, he began a five-year apprenticeship with the publisher and lithographer