The Fool Who Sells Wisdom

The Monkey and the Leopard (The Monkey)

Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet

Copy of Le Gentilhomme qui Salue Tenant son Feutre sous le Bras (The Gentleman who Bows Holding his Felt Hat Under his Arm), from "La Noblesse" (The Nobility)

Anonymous, After Jacques Callot

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

Anonymous, French, 18th century

I tried to escape from this philological discussion, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

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

One would be able to blame you for three years if you dropped their hat, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

J. J. Grandville, Paul-Emile-Daurand Forgues, Auguste Barbant, Henri Fournier

Citizen Bertrand, my good friend, it grieves me to see you in such despair because of your country.... why worry, we'll find someone here to fry, my good friend.... all we need to do is change the kitchen!, published in 'Comic Review,' October 22, 1871

Honoré Daumier

Only everywhere are water faucets, watering cans of any shape, shovels and pots of any size, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

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

Lithographic Sketches by Charlet: Form before Color

Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, Villain

They began at once their frightful charivari, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

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

My captor was one of the king's lackeys, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Joseph Hippolyte Jules Caqué, Honoré de Balzac

Le Cordelier de Venise, plate 4 from "The Decameron"

Léopold Flameng, Giovanni Boccaccio

He gets up, covered from head to toe in snow, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

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