“Profound Refinement, Escaping the Dust of the World”

IN CHINA 19: －Tchinn-Tchinn..., you bring me good news!... I accord you the highest honour of kissing the august dust of my august shoes!..

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

MONOMANIACS 5: THE REGULATOR: The word regulator normally applying to a type of machine, may wall also be applied to the individual above. One finds in Paris, said to be the most spiritual town in the most spiritual country in the Universe, several dozen particular men whose sole intellectual occupation is to regulate, each day, their watch on the shot of midday from the canon of the Royal Palace. Here, gunpowder makes those happy who will never set the world on fire

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

MONOMANIACS 5: THE REGULATOR: The word regulator normally applying to a type of machine, may wall also be applied to the individual above. One finds in Paris, said to be the most spiritual town in the most spiritual country in the Universe, several dozen particular men whose sole intellectual occupation is to regulate, each day, their watch on the shot of midday from the canon of the Royal Palace. Here, gunpowder makes those happy who will never set the world on fire

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

SKETCHES OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE BY DAUMIER 2: Below the upper vignette: SMALL-SCALE SPECULATORS. －Mrs. Chaffarou... I need to get out of MILITARY BEDS in order to get into the CRYSTAL PALACE... unless of course I get into the GAUDALQUIVIR. Below the lower vignette: OPENING OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE. How you can fall flat on your face by running too quickly after wealth

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 16: Below the upper vignette: Bineau the Savage making his entry as minister; Below the lower vignette: －Well, so it's no cleverer than that to talk from the tribune? －Yes, but you, Pierre, you're listening to me too politely, you should say something stupid from time to time, [because] without that there's no longer any illusion, we're not in a meeting any more!

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 16: Below the upper vignette: Bineau the Savage making his entry as minister; Below the lower vignette: －Well, so it's no cleverer than that to talk from the tribune? －Yes, but you, Pierre, you're listening to me too politely, you should say something stupid from time to time, [because] without that there's no longer any illusion, we're not in a meeting any more!

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan