Well, if you look very closely, you might end up finding some quality! The color seems to be good., from 'Sketches from the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, June 16, 1865

Well, if you look very closely, you might end up finding some quality! The color seems to be good, from 'Sketches from the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, June 16, 1865

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

What idiots! You paint a religious picture for them and they laugh.... they don't even have a devotion to art!..., from 'Sketches from the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, June 1, 1865

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

Come on... don't be such a bourgeois.... at least have a look at this Courbet!, from 'Sketches from the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, June 22, 1865

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

The visitor and the artist, from 'Sketches from the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, May 30, 1864

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

Ah, my dear sir, allow me to tell you that this year you have quite simply exhibited a masterpiece, from 'Sketches from the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, May 31, 1865

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

Just look what a degenerated and corrupt world we are living in...., from 'Sketches from the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, June 8, 1865

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

Looking at a Manet painting, from 'Sketches from the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, June 19, 1865

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

La peintre qui a eu un tableau refuse, from L'Exposition de 1859, published in Le Charivari, April 27, 1859

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

A fantastic painter, from 'A sketch from the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, May 11, 1865

Honoré Daumier

A difficult patron of the arts, from 'Exhibition sketches,' published in Le Charivari, June 17, 1864

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

Viens donc..., mon ami, je ne trouve pas ce tableau joli, from L'Exposition de 1859, published in Le Charivari, June 21, 1859

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

Ma femme m'a recommandé de lui rapporter mon portrait fait à Paris..., from Dans la Salle des Ventes, published in Le Charivari, April 4, 1859

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet