“- Ah yes, those comets, they always predict great misfortunes. It doesn't surprise me at all that poor Madame Galuchet suddenly died last night,” plate 573 from Actualités, October 30, 1858
Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Le danger du tete-a-tete (The Danger of a Private Conversation), c.1775
Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet
Margaret Frances Langton Clarke, 1864, printed c. 1866