Her stout figure, above which her little arms kept moving as if she were crowning herself, threw on the wall a fantastic outline of a woman of fifty in deshabille, and on the paper at the end of the room could be seen wavering about one of those corpulent shadows which one could imagine Hoffman and daumier sketching from the back of the beds of old married couples.
"Renée Mauperin"
Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
I scarce can have known at the time that this was as complete a little old-world figure as any that might then have been noted there, far or near; yet if I didn't somehow "subtly" feel it, why am I now so convinced that I must have had familiarly before me a masterpiece of the great daumier, say, or Henri Monnier, or any other then contemporary projector of Monsieur Prudhomme, the timorous Philistine in a world of dangers, with whom I was later on to make acquaintance?
"A Small Boy and Others"
Henry James
He said that daumier drank too much; hence his failure to attain veritable greatness.
"Promenades of an Impressionist"
James Huneker