Honoré Daumier was the most popular caricaturist of the July Monarchy and the Second Empire. With ties to both La Caricature and Le Charivari, he drew for Philipon's papers. An incisive and politically committed artist ("Le Massacre de la rue Transnonain," (The Transnonian Street Massacre, 1834), he was both censored and thrown in prison. He is one of the most important figures in modern art, to quote Baudelaire (Quelques caricaturistes français(A Few French Caricaturists), an influential satirist of the political and social ife of his time. For Daumier's portrayal of Nadar photographiant Paris (Nadar taking pictures of Paris) from the basket of his balloon, the caption read, "Nadar elevating photography to the rank of art." In Nadar's personal collection, he had Daumier's painting Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, which is now at the Fine Arts Museum of Marseille.