Caricature & Satire

Daumier satirical lithograph: caricatured men above, mounted guards in rain at the Assemblée Nationale gate below.

Daumier lithograph of Pierre Leroux speaking from the tribune to a scowling Barrot, and receiving handshakes from deputies be

Daumier caricature: an orator corrects a seated stenographer above, and General Lebreton bends forward below in a crowded ass

Caricature lithograph of a large-headed man in a top hat passing National Guard soldiers, with an assembly tribune scene belo

Satirical lithograph of a conductor and musicians above a text panel, surrounded by a crowd of dancing figures in top hats.

Daumier lithograph of an elderly man in oversized shoes climbing steps with a cane in a legislative chamber, 1850.

Daumier lithograph of a sleeping man in a nightcap haunted by a grinning sprite, a spider labeled Pâte de Régnault, and a jar

Caricature of top-hatted men ice skating, one fallen on the ice, with a crowd and bare trees in the background.

Two men in top hats on a cobblestone street, one leaning in to speak to the other, with city buildings behind them.

Daumier lithograph of three men in top hats and a cap arguing, with a French caption below about an alibi.

Daumier lithograph of two top-hatted men hurrying past white classical sculptures at the Salon, 1847.

Lithograph of a kneeling man in military hat whipping himself, with smoking fortresses labeled Sebastopol and Bomarsund behin

Daumier caricature of two men on a fortress tower, one with a telescope, watching warships firing at sea under smoke.

Daumier lithograph of two older men in top hats and long coats leaping playfully with canes, caricature style, 1855.

Lithograph of a man with a telescope and a frightened woman on a balcony at night, under a starry sky over a city.

Two men in long coats lean toward an open window at night, looking up at the stars, in a Daumier lithograph.

Daumier lithograph of a startled couple in a field as partridges fly around them, with a hunter and dog in the distance.

Daumier lithograph of two men in a railway carriage, one peering out a window at a woman embracing a man outside.

Lithograph of a dense choir of men singing with open mouths, holding music folders, by Honoré Daumier, 1859.

Daumier lithograph of a giant caricatured figure in a plumed hat on a hill, with small soldiers fleeing and smoke at left.

Caricature lithograph of a reclining woman with an open book and a standing man with wild hair gesturing toward her.

Daumier lithograph of Parisians on a street, a woman sneezing into a handkerchief while two top-hatted men look on.

Daumier lithograph of a bending man and a startled seated woman with raised arms, watched by onlookers at left.

Daumier lithograph of a seated bespectacled somnambulist surrounded by a crowd of caricatured top-hatted onlookers.

Caricature lithograph of a man playing a harp while a companion watches, with seated women at a table on the right.

Daumier caricature of a contorted man leaning over a billiard table while another man in a top hat watches.

Daumier lithograph of two men talking in a bare winter landscape, one leaning on a rake beside a leafless tree.

Lithograph of an anxious elderly man beside a woman wiping her eyes with a handkerchief, with theatre audience in background.