“- Yes, my dear Badoulard... I will open a department store even more philanthropic and greater than anything that existed up to now.... it will carry the complete set of articles at half price... someone can come in as naked as a new born baby and leave fully dressed, including cane, umbrella and cigarette lighter! - But then you will ruin all the small little shops in the neighborhood! - What do I care, as long as its all done in the name of humanity!, plate 27 from Les Philantropes Du Jour

A Physionotrace Portraitist

Christoph-Wilhelm Bock

Monsieur Daumier, your Robert-Macaire series is delightful (...), from "Caricaturana"

Honoré Daumier, Le Charivari

Pardon, monsieur le directeur..., from Naïvetés, published in Le Charivari, March 21, 1859

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

The Homeopaths: First Treatment (plate 4)

Charles Émile Jacque

So, what do you think... will it be difficult getting a good price for this sketch?, from 'The artists,' published in Le Charivari, January 19, 1865

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

Les-Parents-Terribles series: Here is the little Dancer

Paul Gavarni

This is What Nowadays is Called a Light Work. “- My God, what's this!.... an encyclopaedia? “- No sir.... it is the novel 'the mysteries of Paris' that Madame bought at the bookshop of our Master. We will bring you the rest of the oeuvre as soon as it appears.,” plate 13 from Revue Caricaturale

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- Now I understand why this chap was so quiet all the time..... instead of reading quietly in his Greek dictionary, he was indulging in a novel...!!,” plate 22 from Professeurs and Moutards

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Les maris me font toujours rire: Item, pour avoir montré, au bal de la Préfecture...

Paul Gavarni

Mephistopheles Appearing to Faust, from Faust

Eugène Delacroix

Et kunstværk bedømmes

Wilhelm Marstrand

The Oculist (plate 18)

Charles Émile Jacque