“- You are not wearing a Talma yet? - No, I remain loyal to the overcoat, it's more flattering to my waistline,” plate 1 from Les Bons Parisiens, 1852
Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Jean-Charles Persil, Modeled c. 1832/35, cast 1929/30
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“What idiots! You paint a religious picture for them and they laugh.... they don't even have a devotion to art!...,” plate 4 from Croquis Pris Au Salon par Daumier, 1865
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“- The Court, having weighed the evidence and apportioned the advantage accruing from the dereliction, abrogates the appeal and all similar procedures, discharges the appellant and amends the judgement of the lower Court in respect to the costs of th respondent, with the exception of a forfeiture payment to Advocate Bizotin in respect of the final judgement, and hereby dismisses both parties as aforementioned. - My God, what a verdict..... my lawyer will ask for at least seventy five francs to explain this to me.....,” plate 4 from Les Gens De Justice, 1845
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Mr. Baill.., plate 312 from Célébrités de la Caricature, 1833
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Marie Louise Charlotte Philippine Pairie, prostitute, licensed by the police, 1835
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“- Finally we obtained the division of property between husband and wife... - about time, there was no more money left to divide,” plate 3 from Les Avocats Et Les Plaideurs, 1851
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Félix Barthe, Modeled c. 1832/35, cast 1929/30
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A Boat Maneuver, plate nine from Les Canotiers Parisiens, 1843
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At the Deligny Baths. - The ladder at 4 p.m., plate 33 from Croquis D'été, 1858
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The Touch, plate 42 from Types Parisiens, 1839
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Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard, Modeled c. 1832/35, cast 1929/30
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Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, December 1866
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
Military Costumes: Sapper (Fireman), Surgeon and Canteen Manager; Grenadier (Musketeer, Infantryman), n.d.
Victor Jean Adam
The danger of wearing hoopskirts during a sudden spring storm, plate 26 from La Crinolomanie, 1857
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Open air exhibition of provincials coming to Paris to see the palace of industry, plate 31 from L'Exposition Universelle, 1855
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Untitled, 1851
Victor Jean Adam
A Fair Reward Presented in 1800 by the Un-Prudish Savages of North America to Louis-Philippe of Orléans, surgeon and expatriate, but still a Frenchman. (I salute you, gracious Black Lady, the Lord is with you.) A Namaquan Ave Maria, plate 466, 1835
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“- If you only knew how pretty you are!... Pretend you are playing! - stop it.. DO - You don't love me!...SO - I'll' always be yours. ... MI,” plate 6 from Les Musiciens De Paris, 1841
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“- Citizen, you owe me another five sous for your luggage, and I am even generous because if I wanted to I could count your wife as a second piece of luggage,” plate 457 from Actualités, 1857
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