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

Half-sisters Lucien Metivet

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

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

Caricature of a French Marquise Lucien Metivet

True Love Emmanuel Poire Caran D'Ache

Caricature of Henri Brisson Charles Leandre

The Explorers Emmanuel Poire Caran D'Ache

Phryne: caricature of an artist's model Lucien Metivet

Caricature of General Zurlinden Charles Leandre

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

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

Band rehearsal Alfred Le Petit

The Risks of the Civilian Albert Guillaume

Cartoon of the composer Andre Messager Leonetto Cappiello

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

Spouse cooing next to her master Paul Gavarni

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

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

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

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

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

La Maison Du Rire Poster Caro

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

Le Sourire, 1899 Paul Gauguin

Title Page for Le Sourire (Titre du Sourire) Paul Gauguin

Le Sourire;Taiti, December 1899 Paul Gauguin

Titre pour Le Sourire, ca. 1900 Paul Gauguin

Le Lion Comique, 1887 Walter Richard Sickert

Poster for le Théâtre Olympia, Grand ballet Brighton Jean de Paleologu

Nouvelle preuve de bienveillance Garnier

Scene from 'Le Malade Imaginaire' by Moliere Charles Robert Leslie

The actor Lekain as Genghis Khan, in 'L'Orphelin de La Chine' by Voltaire 1765 M.F.A. Castelle