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Daumier lithograph of two top-hatted men beside children and women on the ground, with French caption text below.

Robert Macaire en Bertrand bij een groep kinderen

Honoré Daumier, 1838

Daumier lithograph of three men in a street with a wheelbarrow, one in a top hat, with caption text below.

Robert Macaire en Bertrand bij een stratenmaker

Honoré Daumier, 1838

Pen drawing of two men in 18th-century dress beside a heap of wigs, hat and swords, one with a startled open-mouthed expressi

Spotprent op de Aristocratie, 1795

Hermanus Fock, 1795

Lithograph of a young boy in worn clothes holding a shovel on his shoulder, standing on a path in an open landscape.

The Little Roadman

Paul Gavarni, c. 1835

Lithograph of men in a shabby bedroom, one reclining in a chair, one yawning on a bed, under a satirical caption about foundi

The Literary Life

Charles Vernier, n.d.

Lithograph of a poor family: a dozing man, a woman bending over him, and a child resting beside them in a dim room.

A Poor Family

Paul Gavarni, 1843

Daumier lithograph: a crowd of caricatured men crawl toward a throne chair, tied by cords, grabbing coins and documents.

Very humble, very obedient, very submissive, and most of all, very voracious subjects, plate 136

Honoré Daumier, 1832

Lithograph plate of nine rows of exaggerated caricature heads and masks, with a pear among them, from La Caricature.

Masks of 1831, plate 143 from La Caricature

Honoré Daumier, 1832

Lithograph caricature of a stern military officer with epaulettes, above a hand-colored emblem with a tricolor ribbon and cro

Sou..., plate 172 from Célébrités de la Caricature

Honoré Daumier, 1831

Lithograph of three men hauling a giant pear up with a rope in a dim wooden hut, a sleeping figure on the floor.

“Heave-ho!..Heave-ho! Heave-ho!,” plate 179

Honoré Daumier, 1832

Mr. Fulchir.., plate 273 from Célébrités de la Caricature

Honoré Daumier, 1833

Daumier lithograph of an elderly bespectacled man in a dark coat holding a folded checked cloth, 1833.

Mr. Arlépaire.., plate 280 from Célébrités de la Caricature

Honoré Daumier, 1833

Mr. Sébast ...., plate 281 from Célébrités de la Caricature

Honoré Daumier, 1833

Lithograph caricature of a standing man in dark formal coat and white cravat, head tilted back, holding spectacles.

Mr. Étien...., plate 283 from Célébrités de la Caricature

Honoré Daumier, 1833

Lithograph of a stout caricatured man in a frock coat walking, carrying a top hat and rolled paper, by Daumier.

Mr. Barthe, plate 294 from Célébrités de la Caricature

Honoré Daumier, 1833

Lithograph caricature of a grinning man in a frock coat and spectacles, holding a top hat, by Daumier.

Auguste-Hilarion, Comte de Kératry

Honoré Daumier, September 19, 1833

Mr. De Rign, plate 333 from Célébrités de la Caricature

Honoré Daumier, 1833

Lithograph of a rider on a white horse passing fallen figures on a stony plain under a flock of birds.

Travel across the attentive population, plate 413

Honoré Daumier, 1834

Satirical 1873 print of two maids labeled 1st and 2nd Kamer with a seated woman at a table, in a Dutch interior.

Spotprent op het late vaststellen van de begroting voor 1873

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1873

Lithograph of a sleeping man in a top hat slumped over an armchair, with cannons, a rooster, and a woman nearby.

The Repose of France, plate 417

Honoré Daumier, 1834

Daumier lithograph of a large draped figure with an oversized head carried on a platform above a crowd of men in top hats.

The Loose Head, plate 427

Honoré Daumier, 1834

Daumier lithograph of caricatured men hanging from straps in a crowded carriage, with scattered papers and money bags.

The Honours of the Pantheon, plate 433

Honoré Daumier, 1834

Lithograph of a cloaked man scattering banknotes to lure turkeys from a henhouse marked political poultry yard.

Come Here Little Chick, Chick..... Chick... Chick, Come Little Turkeys, plate 442

Honoré Daumier, 1834

Lithograph caricature of a seated woman in an elaborate dress and bird-topped hat counting coins beside a money bag.

Marie Louise Charlotte Philippine Pairie, prostitute, licensed by the police

Honoré Daumier, 1835

Lithograph of a man in a nightshirt lying dead on a bedroom floor beside a rumpled bed, with other bodies partly visible.

Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834, October 2, 1834, plate 24 from L’Association mensuelle

Honoré Daumier, October 2, 1834

Pencil-style print of soldiers in uniform at a stone doorway and window, with a seated man in a top hat, dated 1822.

“I'm guarding city hall”

Honoré Daumier, 1822

Lithograph of a dishevelled man in a worn coat and pince-nez standing in a street, with a fallen hat at his feet.

The Drunkard

Honoré Daumier, 1834

Lithograph of a family interior: a woman at a washtub, an old man, a grandmother, and children near a hearth with hanging lau

The Good Grandmother, plate 55

Honoré Daumier, 1835

Lithograph of a family in a parlor, a man reading a newspaper aloud while relatives, a child and a dog listen nearby.

Reading the newspaper in the family circle

Honoré Daumier, c. 1835

Lithograph of two men with hands in pockets watching a tall water column rise beside scaffolding, with a crowd behind them.

The Grenelle Wells. The director Mr. Mulot and his son finally reaching the end of their work, crossing their arms an…

Honoré Daumier, 1842