Robert Macaire n°13 : Argument irrésistible. Mais ta future ne veut pas de toi...

Departure for Spain. “He will mount! he will not mount! he will mount! and no, he will not mount!!!,” plate 498

Art Institute of Chicago

Plate 25: Robert Macaire, the genteel beggar, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Robert: “- Well, well! My dear director... how's business?” Bertrand: “- Good, very good, I am quite content. Unfortunately we don't have a penny to continue! - Oh blast! - But an investor still owes us 200,000 Francs... and will come up for signature either tonight or latest tomorrow morning. - About time... I urgently need a new pair of boots,” plate 6 from Robert Macaire

Art Institute of Chicago

A Candidate. “Who do you want?... An upright, conscientious, sober man, an industrialist, a man who doesn't need the government to enrich himself, a man familiar with the law, who knows it well, through practice, very long practice... a long practice of law... you can't choose any better than... my honorable friend,” plate 48 from Caricaturana

Art Institute of Chicago

Robert-Macaire, lawyer

Cleveland Museum of Art

Robert Macaire Bookseller

Cleveland Museum of Art

Abuse of article 214 of the civil law. “My lady wife, you let me want for everything, you only allow me a miserable pension of three thousand francs, you throw me out of your door like a beggar, and, what is more, you want to drive me away from Paris, exile me, deport me!... No! No! I won't leave France! I won't! I won't!!... Listen, I owe my friend Bertrand 10'000 Fr., it's a gambler's debt, a debt of honor, I owe my cook 525 Fr. and ten francs for my chambers, a total of 10'535 Fr. Let me have a few thousand francs more to take my mind off my domestic worries and, on my word of honor, I won't pester you any longer,” plate 50 from Caricaturana

Art Institute of Chicago

“- I don't want your credits... the expiration date is on the 15th of June and the world is supposed to end on the 13th,” plate 2 from La Cométe De 1857

Art Institute of Chicago

The Past, the Present, the Future, plate 349

Art Institute of Chicago

Don't love me anymore?! ... Why Pamela, that would be a luxury that your methods do not permit you., p. 97

Harvard Art Museums

A Revolt On Board. “- Ah! you want to be your own captain!... - Ah! you are treating me like an idiot... hey... I hope the Seine washes away that insult!,” plate 13 from Les Canotiers Parisiens

Art Institute of Chicago

“What about that..., they don't seem to be interested in me any more,” plate 89 from Actualités

Art Institute of Chicago