The Dinner of the Painter Casanova

A whirlwind of smoke and ashes seizes the air you breathe, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

J. J. Grandville, Paul-Emile-Daurand Forgues, Brugnot, Henri Fournier

Le Général Burgoyne à Saratoga, le 17 Octobre, 1777; and Le Général Cornwallis à Yorck, le 19 Octobre, 1781

Anonymous, French, 18th century

Bivouac Kitchen

Horace Vernet

Le Pillage d'une Ferme (The Looting of a Farm), plate 5 from "Les Misères et les Mal-Heures de la Guerre" (The Miseries and Misfortunes of War)

Jacques Callot, Israël Henriet

A Sailor Smoking with His Arms Crossed, from "Matelots"

Joseph François Foulquier, After Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

The Battery Group

Horace Vernet, Hipolyte Lecomte, Godefroy Engelmann

The Passion for Gambling

Claude Gillot, Jacques Gabriel Huquier

Le Pillage d'une Ferme (The Looting of a Farm), from Les Misères et les Mal-Heures de la Guerre (The Miseries and Misfortunes of War), plate 5

Jacques Callot, Israël Henriet

Frontispiece: Gaigne Petit, plate 1 from "Le Cris de Paris" (The Cries of Paris)

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder, After François Boucher, Gabriel Huquier

Peasant Leaning on a Sack of Grain

Catherine-Francoise Beauvarlet, After Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint Quentin

Water Carrier

Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus, After Edme Bouchardon

Plundering a Large Farmhouse, plate five from The Large Miseries of War

Gerrit Lucasz van Schagen