“- Still more Venuses this year... always Venuses!... as if there were any women built like that!,” plate 2 from Croquis Pris Au Salon par Daumier

Still more Venuses this year... always Venuses!... as if there were any women built like that!, from 'Sketches from the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, May 10, 1865

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

At the Moulin Rouge: La Goulue and Her Sister

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

At the Moulin Rouge, La Goulue and Her Sister

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Preview at the Auction House Drouot

Charles Maurand

“- 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

At the Moulin Rouge: La Goulue and Her Sister

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edward Ancourt, Boussod, Valadon and Co.

A True Art Lover, plate 66 from Les Bons Bourgeois

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“I don't want to go into such a deep water...... there are surely big fish in there!,” plate 1 from Enfantillages

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The Actor: “- It's obvious that it is hot out there... only three spectators in the audience... should we really start?” The Director: “- And one of them is the refreshments vendor ... quickly raise the curtain before he has a chance to leave,” plate 1 from Paris L'été

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

"What are you looking for here, Philosopher?"

Paul Gavarni

“- Difficult to imagine that in my days I also was an acclaimed Spanish dancer... nowadays only my castanets are Spanish... what a drag...,” plate 11 from Croquis Dramatiques

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- Oh, my friend... I am afraid of these people there. - And rightly so... they are quite vicious, they beat their women and make them have black children!,” plate 101 from Actualités

Honoré-Victorin Daumier