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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,832 works

Lithograph of a seated woman surrounded by grotesque caricature figures, with a La Caricature newspaper on the floor.

Chimera of the imagination, from "La Caricature"

Honoré Daumier, February 7, 1833

Lithograph grid of fifteen exaggerated caricature heads in three rows, labeled with names, titled Masques de 1831.

Masks of 1831, published in La Caricature

Honoré Daumier, March 8, 1832

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a lace collar, flanked by two putti, a funerary urn, and draped cloth with a coat

Jean Habert de Montmor

Claude Mellan, 1640

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a fur collar and cap, with a coat of arms below the oval frame.

Matthieu Molé

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a fur-trimmed garment, with a coat of arms below in a decorative frame.

François-Théodore de Nesmond

Claude Mellan, ca. 1661

Engraving of a seated young boy in ornate robes surrounded by kneeling and standing men in dark gowns, with coats of arms.

Frontispiece: Les Ordonnances royaux

Claude Mellan, ca. 1644

Ink drawing of a uniformed soldier in a shako and cape with a handwritten French letter below, dated 1880.

Letter to Samuel P. Avery with a drawing of a military figure

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 1880

Hand-colored print of a fashionable four-in-hand coach with top-hatted man, feathered woman, and four chestnut horses in a pa

Coaching - Four in Hand - A Swell Turn-out

Currier & Ives, 1876

Etching of a bearded man in a fur cap, head bowed to the right, rendered in fine hatched lines.

A bearded man wearing a cap looking down to the right, from "Heads in Oriental Headdress"

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1648-50

Engraved portrait of a man with curly hair, mustache and goatee, wearing a ruff collar, with a Latin inscription below.

Raffaello Menicucci

Engraved oval portrait of Henri II de Montmorency with curled hair, lace collar, armor and an order cross.

Henri II de Montmorency

Engraved oval portrait of an elderly bald man with a beard in a scrolled frame, inscribed Ludovicus Dorleans, 1622.

Portrait of Louis d'Orléans

Claude Mellan, 1622

Engraved portrait of a man with wavy hair and mustache in a white collar, inside an octagonal frame with inscription.

Portrait of Michel de Marolles

Claude Mellan, 1648

Engraving of a bearded man in a hat and cloak leaning against a tree in a forest, with a coat of arms beside him.

James Howell Standing in a Forest

Claude Mellan, 1641

Engraving of a man in a cloak and hat leaning on a tree in a forest, with a Latin inscription below.

James Howel Standing in a Forest

Claude Mellan, 1641

Engraving of the moon in its first quarter phase, with craters rendered in fine hatched lines on a dark background.

The Moon in its First Quarter

Claude Mellan, 1635

Engraving of two horned satyrs beside a tree and globe, with grapevines and a child gathering grapes in the foreground.

Satyrs

Claude Mellan, before 1645

Engraving of a winged angel and a kneeling helmeted soldier inscribing stone tablets before a mountain with falling flames.

An Angel and a Soldier Inscribe Stone Slabs

Engraved tail-piece with a woman's head crowned by fruit and foliage, flanked by scrolls and two dolphins tied with a ribbon.

Tail-piece: Woman's Head (Cul-de-lampe: Buste de femme)

Engraving of a nude female figure holding a torch while standing on a pedestal, with clouds in the background.

Feminine Figure

Engraving of Minerva in a helmet teaching a young boy in a fleur-de-lis robe beside an inscribed plinth and olive tree.

Minerva Instructs the Dauphin

Claude Mellan, 1640

Caricature of a large-headed man alone in a theatre auditorium watching costumed actors on stage.

'Les Bulos Graves', Victor Hugo at his play 'Les Burgraves', from 'La Caricature'

Jean Pierre Moynet, April 2, 1843

Harlé Père, published in "La Caricature"

Honoré Daumier, June 5, 1833

Caricature lithograph of Victor Hugo with a large bald head, folded arms, standing on a stack of books.

Victor Hugo

Honoré Daumier, July 20, 1849

Hand-colored satirical lithograph of caricatured figures racing along a path past trees, a donkey, and a dog.

Grand Course au Clocher Académique, No. 5

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, 1844

Pen-and-ink cartoon of a helmeted military man standing on a map, with a robed Liberty figure and a domed capitol behind him.

Bismarck and Liberty

Thomas Nast, ca. 1885

Hand-colored satirical print of caricatured academicians scrambling around a red armchair marked 40 in an ornate chamber.

Grand Course-au-Clocher Académique, Planche 1: Perruques Académiques

Auguste Desperret, 1844

Hand-colored satirical lithograph of caricatured writers racing toward the Académie française, with ghostly figures and capti

Grand Course au Clocher Académique, Pl. 2

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, 1844

Lithograph caricature of a stooping man in a rumpled long coat and loose trousers, titled Mr. Vieux-Niais, by Honoré Daumier.

Mr. Vieux-Niais, published in "La Caricature"

Honoré Daumier, May 30, 1833

Caricature lithograph of a man in a dark overcoat leaning on a wall with an exaggerated nose and raised hand.

Adolphe Jollivet, published in "La Caricature"

Honoré Daumier, December 27, 1833