Robert Macaire: Honoré Daumier’s Timeless 19th-Century Scoundrel
Humankind’s propensity for dupery—the seemingly perpetual supply of scallywags coupled with an even larger supply of suckers—never fails to astound me. The idea that the grosser the distortion of reality, the more inclined some people are to believe it, doesn’t make a bit of sense, but this aspect of the…
