–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

Le Wagon de troisième classe

1862

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Le Mélodrame

1860

Neue Pinakothek

La Blanchisseuse

1863

musée d'Orsay

Le Wagon de troisième classe

1863

Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

Don Quichotte et Sancho Pansa

1868

Neue Pinakothek

Ratapoil

1851

Neue Pinakothek

Sortie du bateau à lessive

1863

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Crispin et 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

La Mort de Socrate

Jacques-Louis David · 1787

Vue de Tolède

Le Greco · 1596

Madame X

John Singer Sargent · 1884

Les Moissonneurs

Pieter Brueghel l'Ancien · 1565

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Emanuel Leutze · 1851

Aristote contemplant le buste d’Homère

Rembrandt · 1653

Jeune Femme à l'aiguière

Johannes Vermeer · 1660

La Femme au perroquet

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Terrasse à Sainte-Adresse

Claude Monet · 1867

Les Musiciens

Le Caravage · 1595

La Femme dans les vagues

Gustave Courbet · 1868

Une jeune fille assoupie

Johannes Vermeer · 1657