Le rire posters & prints

Front cover of Le Rire, or Laughter Petitjean

Humorous cartoon from the front cover of 'Le Rire', 22nd April 1899 Lucien Metivet

Le Journal Pour Rire, Journal d'Iimages, Journal Comique, Critique, Satirique e…, August 23, 1850 Unknown

Tz'U-Hsi Empress Dowager of China, front cover of 'Le Rire', 14th July 1900 Charles Leandre

En voulez des-z-homards? (would you like some lobsters?) Bordier

Le salon pour rire, 13 May 1866, La Lune, 2, 1866, No, 10, 1866 Anonymous

An International Punch, drawing for the magazine Le Journal pour Rire, 1849. Gustave Doré

Half-sisters Lucien Metivet

The Explorers Emmanuel Poire Caran D'Ache

Caricature of a French Marquise Lucien Metivet

Phryne: caricature of an artist's model Lucien Metivet

True Love Emmanuel Poire Caran D'Ache

Caricature of General Zurlinden Charles Leandre

Caricature of Henri Brisson Charles Leandre

My friend, your wife is charming. My friend, yours is even more so Paul Gavarni

(The Duke to his wife) You have enough virtue left to make me happy Paul Gavarni

Spouse cooing next to her master Paul Gavarni

How poorly you lie, my love (Comme tu ments mal, mon cheri) Paul Gavarni

And here is the enormous secret that my husband has been hiding from me for a month. And you knew... Paul Gavarni

My husband's last passion? See what the daguerreotype says. Not pretty, a common air, and what awful hands...one wonders what... Paul Gavarni

Cartoon of the composer Andre Messager Leonetto Cappiello

Band rehearsal Alfred Le Petit

Stage, Music Hall and Opera stars of the Belle Epoque era, driving in the Bois de Boulogne, Avenue des Acacias,... Leonetto Cappiello

Great Fire on the Quai De Billy, Paris Anonymous

George V, 'The Simple', the first Midshipman of the Royal Navy Charles Leandre

Poster for le Concert des Ambassadeurs, Eugénie Buffet Lucien Marie François Métivet

Nouvelle preuve de bienveillance Garnier

La Maison Du Rire Poster Caro

Fire (Ignis) Jan van de Velde II

The Risks of the Civilian Albert Guillaume

Conseils Paternels (Paternal advice) Anonymous

The Marquis De Jouffroy Studies Challiot's Fire Pump Anonymous

Fire in brewery De Valk Amsterdam Frans Schikkinger

Fire at the Bazar de la Charite, 4th May 1897 F.L. & Tofani Oswaldo Meaulle

The element of fire as a young man with lightning Nicolaes de Bruyn

Great Fire at Montreal, Sketched from the North Corner of the Champ De Mars, 1852 Anonymous