“- You must come to have dinner, my wife will eat in town.. it is just us two men! - Ah, the Devil! I have a terrible headache (aside) and his wife is waiting for me!,” plate 7 from Vulgarités, 1841

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“I say to myself: would anybody imagine that we are coming from the Rue des Lombards?... We really don't look like confectioners at all,” plate 2 from Coquetry, 1839

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The Poet (Le poète), Modeled probably after 1860, cast 1930s–1960s

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The Confidant (Le Confident), Modeled probably after 1860, cast c. 1954

Style of Honoré Victorin Daumier

Some artists are taking advantage of this year's permission to exhibit more than three paintings, plate 400 from Actualités, 1857

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“Yes, it is Leonidas...... No Question, it is Leonidas!” (The happy father deems it appropriate to be moved by recognizing Leonidas), plate 100 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie, 1846

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Peter Josef-Victor de Benseval, n.d.

Louis de Carmontelle

Medal commemorating Motherhood, c. 1910

Victor David Brenner

The Waiter in Black Suits. Funeral of the tip box, plate 2 from Croquis Parisiens, published April 27, 1855

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Quite embarrassing not to remember where one has hidden the wolf traps, plate 44 from Pastorales, 1846

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View Taken of the Streets of Paris after the Performance of the Famous Moralistic Comedy "La Bourse,” plate 330 from Actualités, 1856

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Mr. Coste noticing that the fish he took out of the water in order to analyse their state of health, end up feeling not well at all, plate 387 from Actualités, 1857

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Former Dandies from the time of the Directory, plate 7 from Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra, 1847

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The Repose of France, plate 417, 1834

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“Damn country! I only shoot sparrows.... and just females... and this ingenious guard insisted the place is full of rabbits,” plate 5 from La Chasse, 1843

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Merope. “A soldier of my stature is quite able to run the state once defended with so much fun,” plate 2 from Physionomies Tragiques (recto); Provost. (dans le Puff - Thtre Français) "Le Puff, est l'art de semer et de faire èclore á son profit la chose qui n'est pas" (verso), 1851 (recto); n.d. (verso)

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The Victory of the Scipios at Illiturgo from Historiae romanae decades (Roman History), Plate 49 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century, 1493, portfolio assembled 1929

Monogrammist F

Gotha, from Album I, 1955, published 1959

Victor de Vasarely

Prie-Dieu Cover, c. 1857/60

“Brigand of a may-bug... it's you who devours all my property. You shall perish through my hand!,” plate 32 from Pastorales, 1845

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