Asteroids named after people called Honore

(8235) Fragonard

Jean-Honor茅 Fragonard (1732-1806) was a student of Boucher. Both teacher and pupil painted the colorful world of the Rococo aristocracy. In his landscape paintings Fragonard shows the influence of the Venetian artists.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar

(12612) Daumier

Honor茅 Daumier (1808-1879) was a great French painter and lithographer. Among his many satirical and socially critical works is Parisians Waiting for the Famous Comet, 1857, a comet that had been predicted to strike the earth but that never materialized.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar

(18430) Balzac

Honor茅 de Balzac (1799-1850), the creator of the French realistic novel, was a keen observer of French human society in the post-Napoleonic time. His principal work La com茅die humaine is a gigantic unfinished novel cycle, for which he had planned 137 volumes.Discovered 14 January 1994 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg