The Pamela Hat. “You are perfectly right Madame to adopt this ravishing form of a new hat...... especially from the side it matches beautifully your physiognomy.....!,”plate 76 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie

“- And to think that Prudhon did not want us to attend the socialist banquets.... the poor man has never loved..... he totally ignores that it is the woman's presence which beautifies existence,” plate 184 from Actualités

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Carnaval

Paul Gavarni

Baliverneries Parisiennes

Paul Gavarni

Le Cocu battu et content, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795"

Jean-Louis Delignon, After Jean Honoré Fragonard, Jean de La Fontaine, Pierre Didot l'ainé

“- Here, my wife, is my daguerreotype portrait which I brought back for you from Paris... - Why didn't you have mine done while you were there... get lost, you egotist!,” plate 28 from Les Bons Bourgeois

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

"What are you looking for here, Philosopher?"

Paul Gavarni

Les Lorettes

Paul Gavarni

Les Lorettes

Paul Gavarni

Disadvantage of Marrying a Woman with a So-Called Artistic Talent, plate 77 from Les Bons Bourgeois

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Madame Prudhomme, they are reorganizing the army. It is only right that I serve my duty as a Zouave, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, November 28, 1866

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Arnaud de Vresse

Les Actrices: Bonjour mon Colonel!

Paul Gavarni

“- My dear friend, we have learned yesterday at the theatre that a gentleman has inadvertedly stepped on your foot.... We have come to get his address and we are eager to announce that the affair is arranged.... He is waiting for you this morning in the Bois de Boulogne. You will raise pistols at a distance of 15 paces,” plate 1 from Les Amis

Honoré-Victorin Daumier