–You take your pin-gun in your hand like this.... you fire... puff... this kills ten times more people than the old system... –Ah, yes papa, this is what one calls progress, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, August 8, 1866

The Third-Class Carriage

1862

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Melodrama

1860

Neue Pinakothek

The Laundress

1863

Musée d'Orsay

The Third-Class Carriage

1863

National Gallery of Canada

Don Quijote and Sancho Panza

1868

Neue Pinakothek

Ratapoil

1851

Neue Pinakothek

The Laundress

1863

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Crispin and Scapin

1864

Musée d'Orsay

Eunuchs Reformed by the Bey of Tunis, from 'News of the Day,' published in Le Charivari, January 18, 1860

1760

Metropolitan Museum of Art

–They're talking about new elections. –Before I vote for a candidate, I want him to be examined by a doctor to make sure he is not declared invalid again, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, September 27, 1869

1809

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Misanthropist published in Le Charivari, February 10, 1833

1833

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plate 19: Robert Macaire at the restaurant, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

1838

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Death of Socrates

Jacques-Louis David · 1787

View of Toledo

El Greco · 1596

Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)

John Singer Sargent · 1884

The Harvesters

Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1565

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Emanuel Leutze · 1851

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt · 1653

Woman with a Water Jug

Johannes Vermeer · 1660

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Garden at Sainte-Adresse

Claude Monet · 1867

The Musicians

Caravaggio · 1595

The Woman in the Waves

Gustave Courbet · 1868

A Girl Asleep

Johannes Vermeer · 1657