Baliverneries Parisiennes

“- Three months ago, the Count sat model like that.... nowadays there is no more similarity..... everything seems to be wrong,” plate 40 from Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Monsieur Filochard, ex shopkeeper, retired, feels the need of passing on his bust in marble to even remotest posterity, plate 68 from Les Bons bourgeois

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Self-Portrait of a Frenchman, plate 2 from Scénes D'ateliers

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

One Realist Will Always Find Another Realist who Admires His Work

Etienne Carjat

Votre tableau me plairait aussi...., from Les Bons Bourgeois, published in Le Charivari, October 12, 1846

Honoré Daumier, Aubert et Cie, Aubert et Cie

A Kettledrum in Mayfair

George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier

Des Mères de Famille!

Paul Gavarni

Chemin de Toulon

Paul Gavarni

Masks and faces

Paul Gavarni

Les Partageuses: Thursday you dined at Vachette's

Paul Gavarni

Dr. Nicholas Tulp in Rembrandt's Studio (recto); Scene from Rembrandt's Life (?) (verso)

Jacobus Ludovicus Cornet

“- How do you find this saint there.... I tried to not make him look too conventional.... The bourgeois: - I quite agree, a Saint never should look short winded,” plate 80 from Les Bons Bourgeois

Honoré-Victorin Daumier