Plate 20: To anyone with capital to lose, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

Plate 20: To anyone with capital to lose, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

Honoré Daumier

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

For a hundred francs, one and a quarter centimes' worth of food every twelve hours... How's that for a revenue!! New principles. We distribute the interest in centimes and per hour... How's that for an invention!!! Guarantees offered to shareholders. The manager will take the company's money and will deposit some of it in the bank... how's that for a bank!!! Capital... We won't tell you, you have to see it to believe it... if you want industry, how about that!!!!!

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plate 20: To anyone with capital to lose, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert MacairesPlate 20: To anyone with capital to lose, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert MacairesPlate 20: To anyone with capital to lose, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert MacairesPlate 20: To anyone with capital to lose, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert MacairesPlate 20: To anyone with capital to lose, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.