Honoré Victorin Daumier

“- Here, Eudoxie, take my bear skin... since from now on I will not have the pleasure any more to wear it, I give it to you to make a muff out of it... This way I have at least the satisfaction of seeing it from time to time”

Art Institute of Chicago · 1848

Lithograph in black on white wove paper · lithograph

The Print Collector

Art Institute of Chicago · c. 1860

Oil on cradled panel · painting

Nadar Elevating Photography to the Heights of Art, plate 367 from Souvenirs d’artistes

Art Institute of Chicago · 1862

Lithograph in black on white wove paper · lithograph

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

Art Institute of Chicago · October 2, 1834

Lithograph in black on grayish-ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove…

"- Can you see the comet?... just there, at the tip of my finger ... don't lose sight of my finger tip!," plate 5 from La Comète De 1857

Art Institute of Chicago · 1857

Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper · lithograph

Family Scene

Art Institute of Chicago · c. 1865

Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, on ivory wove paper…

“- What a fuss this sour-face from the fifth floor is making! Wearing a hat just to buy two cups of milk for one sou! - Oh, Madame Capitaine, aren't we fancy today...,” plate 36 Types Parisiens

Art Institute of Chicago · 1840

Lithograph in black on white wove paper · lithograph

"- My God! Madame Bombec, what happened to you? - Don't mention it, my dear, it's horrible. The world is going from bad to worse, I would rather be janitor at the botanical garden! You know that Bézuchet from the fifth floor, the one that always insists that her good-for-nothing daughter who is fat around the hips has become..... I only replied: Ah, well! - And that's the person who… - Of course, even a blind man can see that!,” plate 30 from Types Parisiens

Art Institute of Chicago · 1840

Lithograph in black on white wove paper · lithograph

Malbroug s'en va-t-en Guerre...

Art Institute of Chicago · 1835

Lithograph in black on white wove paper · lithograph

The Past, the Present, the Future, plate 349

Art Institute of Chicago · 1834

Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper · lithograph

An Activist, from Les Femmes Socialistes

Art Institute of Chicago · 1849

Lithograph on white wove paper · lithograph

The Grape Gatherer, from Les Bons Bourgeois

Art Institute of Chicago · 1847

Lithograph in black on white wove paper · lithograph

The Butcher

Harvard Art Museums · c. 1860-1863

Watercolor, black crayon, white chalk, and white gouache on cream wove paper…

"- How are you feeling today, Mr. Chapolard? - Madame Pochet, a concierge who knows how to behave, should address her landlord only in the third person. - How can I talk to you in the third person, since you are the first person I am seeing this morning," plate 11 from Croquis Parisiens

Art Institute of Chicago · 1852

Lithograph in black on white wove paper · lithograph

“How silly ! Just look how they run. That's what you get when you are at the wrong place. Just you wait! Next time, tell us in advance and we'll take good care of you...,” plate 1 from Émotions Parisiennes

Art Institute of Chicago · 1839

Lithograph in black on white wove paper · lithograph

“I don't give a damn about your Miss Sand who prevents women from mending pants and darning socks! ... We must re-establish divorce or suppress those authors!,” plate 6 from Moeurs Conjugales

Art Institute of Chicago · 1839

Lithograph in black, with handcoloring on white wove paper · lithograph