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

The Explorers Emmanuel Poire Caran D'Ache

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

Caricature of a French Marquise Lucien Metivet

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

Phryne: caricature of an artist's model Lucien Metivet

Half-sisters Lucien Metivet

Caricature of General Zurlinden Charles Leandre

True Love Emmanuel Poire Caran D'Ache

Caricature of Henri Brisson Charles Leandre

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

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

Spouse cooing next to her master Paul Gavarni

Cartoon of the composer Andre Messager Leonetto Cappiello

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

Band rehearsal Alfred Le Petit

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

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

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

La Maison Du Rire Poster Caro

Nouvelle preuve de bienveillance Garnier

The Risks of the Civilian Albert Guillaume

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

Conseils Paternels (Paternal advice) Anonymous

Il Faut en Rire, ca. 1830 Nicolas Toussaint Charlet

Napoleon Pour Rire!! Joseph Swain

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

Les Poires Charles Philipon

Le Roi Candaule, 1901 Charles Guérin

Le Café, 19th century Achille Devéria

Lire Dans, le Matin, au Pied de l'Echafaud Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec