Lithograph of a bearded man playing a flute and a helmeted soldier with a tube, seated on clouds beneath stars, with a woman behind them.

Even the Planets Watch the Famous Comet, from La Comète de 1857

A black-and-white lithograph shows two seated figures on clouds beneath bright stars: a bearded man playing a flute and a stout soldier in a plumed helmet holding a tube. A seated woman in the background gazes upward toward a glowing light.

Artist: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Date: 1857
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1304 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1857).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Print and Drawing Club

19th century satire 1850s 1857 caricature lithograph black and white print clouds soldiers daumier stars comet flute planets