You talk like a cane! – And you like a beetroot!

Honoré Daumier

1839

Like a Puppet

Honoré Daumier

1869

The inconvenience of having his hair curled. Oh blast…. look here, watch out… you are burning me…. I am meeting someone, and I want you to make me look good… but in order to declare my burning passion, I don’t need to smell scorched!

Honoré Daumier

1844

Physical exercise may be forming the bones, but deforms the nose.

Honoré Daumier

1845

The Baptism of Achilles. / Thetis, wishing to make her brat a hero, / decided that a bath in Styx would be the thing to do / she threw him in and with surprise / experienced that a bath was really wise. / (On the influence of bathing, poem by Monsieur Vigier)

Honoré Daumier

1842

What one calls the seducations of Paris. Tickets, Sir?…. this evening you’ll hear Madame Dorus-Grasse and Monsieur Bariolhé… excellent seats in the orchestra…. just twelve francs… cheaper than at the theatre’s ticket counter.

Honoré Daumier

1844

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.

Honoré Daumier

1845

I’m annoyed about my chariots and my javelins; I don’t even remember old Neptune’s teachings! (Phèdre)

Honoré Daumier

1841

This is a so called merchant, victim of his victims, crazy, squanderer and intriguing. He pays 1% to his creditors for 10 years, forgets about the past, does not care about the future, struts about the Bois de Boulogne with his yellow gloves, strolls along the boulevard des Italiens and theatre lobbies. He talks of honour and decency and calls his creditors thieves. He loves the pose of the political, industrial and moral victim and splashes the whole world.

Honoré Daumier

1840

Lord, what a nose you’ve given me!

Honoré Daumier

1838

Listen to me policeman! I just got married yesterday, I returned from my wedding and I am going to bed! – You will have to come with me… it’s the law! – But marriage is also a law!

Honoré Daumier

1839

Students of the sixth grade trying to behave like rhetoricians.

Honoré Daumier

1846

The fair sex at the swimming school

Honoré Daumier

1852

Security Chain Dealer. The coupling chain is named after the way its used by an unsuspecting victim, who wears it, thus signaling that he is in the possession of a watch. The cronies stationed in the neighborhood are not dallying to put the information to profit. This way Bertrand has sold the chain and Macaire gets the watch.

Honoré Daumier

1840

Mr. Joliv…

Honoré Daumier

1833

A day of sleek. The angel of the sidewalk.

Honoré Daumier

1865

Robert Macaire, business agent. Yesterday I made a mistake when I said that your business is in good shape. It’s detestable. The government owes you five hundred thousand francs, it’s true, but the debt hasn’t been recognized, there’s a forfeiture today, you won’t have a penny. However, come to think of it, there’s Mr. de St. Bertrand, a rich capitalist, an imbecile, sell him your interests for a hundred crowns, that’ll be a splendid deal… (aside) and not expensive.

Honoré Daumier

1836

My God! Monseigneur, I am forced to leave for the countryside, allow me to leave my wife behind to keep you company

Honoré Daumier

1837

Mother Bridon goes to hell… the Abbé Boullard absolves me… a fine hearse… virgins in white… I am going to heaven with my poor little kitten.

Honoré Daumier

1833

Nadar Elevating Photography to Art

Honoré Daumier

1862

The Public Bath for 20 Centimes. New Style. – I say, old man…. is the water any good? – Poor idiot! if it were any good, they wouldn’t give us that much for just 4 Sous.

Honoré Daumier

1840-1842

Eve of the Battle of Thernopylae. Taking advantage of the shadows of the night, Leonidas advanced to reconnoitre the vanguard of Xerxes. Four fervent warriors accompanied him on this heroic expedition. (Illustrated Plutarch)

Honoré Daumier

1842

The landlord really is a real robber… It seems he chooses to make roof repairs only during sunny weather.

Honoré Daumier

1847

Goodbye Flora, my dear… don’t forget to send two copies of your frothy little pieces to the newspaper office… and I shall whip them up in my article.

Honoré Daumier

1844