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An Exaggerated Rejuvenation. “Just two or three sessions with me, Monsieur, and anyone who still claims to find a grey hair on you, is a malicious person.” As a matter of fact, since the end of the second session, Monsieur's head looks as shiny as that of a newborn baby, plate 52 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

“- Your suit fits.... I'll borrow it from you... only, please close the door, I can feel a draft on my back. - Oh blast, the door is shut,..... but you just opened the only suit I have,” plate 5 from Les Amis

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

“- My dear friend, we have learned yesterday at the theatre that a gentleman has inadvertedly stepped on your foot.... We have come to get his address and we are eager to announce that the affair is arranged.... He is waiting for you this morning in the Bois de Boulogne. You will raise pistols at a distance of 15 paces,” plate 1 from Les Amis

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

“- But I am telling you, they are friends.... they are just expressing themselves to each other,” plate 9 from Les Amis

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

“- I really gave you a good dressing down... - And I didn't mince matters in my reply.... - We were both excellent... - We were superbe. It's really only in the Palace of Justice that people know how to argue and call each other all kinds of names without really getting angry...,” plate 8 from Les Gens De Justice

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

The Pamela Hat. “You are perfectly right Madame to adopt this ravishing form of a new hat...... especially from the side it matches beautifully your physiognomy.....!,”plate 76 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

New Year's Day. The Chinese, following an old and respectable tradition invented by a confectioner, never fail to begin the year by offering to all their acquaintances chestnuts and other small presents. They kiss each other with pursed lips, but would rather tear each other apart. On this memorable day in Beijing alone 300'000 kilos of sweets and 200'000 kilos of gingerbread will be devoured. No wonder that on January 2nd all the little Chinese have a colic. But who cares.... next year they'll be again filled up with the same colic enhancing stuff always under the pretext of "traditional duty", plate 25 from Voyage En Chine

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

The Colonnade of the Tzarskoé-sélo Palace, plate fourteen Vues pittoresques des palais et jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Pétersbourg

C. Schultz, 1845

The danger of being caught in a steeple chase, plate 12 from Pastorales

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

“- My dear friend, you really don't look very well this morning. I am not speaking to you as a doctor, but as a friend. I must insist in treating you.... better than I would treat myself. I am going to apply 30 leeches to your belly and if by tomorrow you have not improved, I'll apply another sixty,” plate 8 from Les Amis

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

Subscribers Tyring to Cope with Their Paper, plate 115 from Actualités

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

The Return of the Oyster Season. “- I could eat twelve dozens of them… just imagine that there are people who don't like oysters… - They just have no self respect…,” plate 53 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

The Engagement of an Artist. “- So you want an engagement in my theatre..... very well Mademoiselle...... since you are so pretty, it will be 1200 Francs.... that's of course what you will be paying me each year! - I accept... under the condition that I will not get a raise!,” plate 72 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

The Illustrated Rebus. “- Singular! I cannot guess the rebus in today's Charivari! - I think I have one word - I have several words - I have it all! I must run and tell my wife,” plate 39 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

Madame Cabassol going for a romantic stroll in the botanical gardens together with the youngest friend of her husband's. Sudden encounter with the latter not far from a stag, plate 4 from Les Amis

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

This is Where the Lecture of the Constitutionnel Might Take You, plate 8 from Pastorales

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

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

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

“- Yes, my dear Badoulard... I will open a department store even more philanthropic and greater than anything that existed up to now.... it will carry the complete set of articles at half price... someone can come in as naked as a new born baby and leave fully dressed, including cane, umbrella and cigarette lighter! - But then you will ruin all the small little shops in the neighborhood! - What do I care, as long as its all done in the name of humanity!, plate 27 from Les Philantropes Du Jour

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

The Palace of Alexandre at Tzarskoé-sélo, plate twelve from Vues pittoresques des palais et jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Pétersbourg

C. Schultz, 1845

Church of the Grand Palace, Petergof, plate one from Vues pittoresques des palais et jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Pétersbourg

C. Schultz, 1845

“- So, Gringalet from Paris!.... you will dance twice with my Catherine ...... try again now to make sheep's eyes at her,” plate 27 from Pastorales

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

The Rendez-Vous. “- Madame Eudoxie Blancminet? - That's me, Monsieur... what can I do for you?,” plate 44 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

Tzarskoé-sélo Palace, View of the Chinese Bridge, plate fifteen from Vues pittoresques des palais et jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Pétersbourg

C. Schultz, 1845

“- What a fortunate encounter! It's my dear Stanislaus whom I haven't seen since we were in the sixth class together at Landernau.... in these times we used to share everything.... Things should be the same again, could you lend me 20 or 25 Francs?,” plate 2 from Les Amis

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845