Dites donc, père Coquardeau, il est joliment frais

A lithograph from Daumier's *Les Baigneurs* series, printed by Aubert in Paris. Two aging, shirtless men lean from adjoining wooden bathing-cabin windows — one turbaned, gaunt, dark-bearded; the other pale and bald — apparently trading a cup of cold water with the caption roughly translating as *'I say, Father Coquardeau, it's quite refreshingly cool!'* The figures deploy the exaggerated bone structure and sagging flesh Daumier used to mock the Parisian bourgeoisie at leisure. The caricature descends directly from Rowlandson and Gillray's London print shops and feeds forward into the sequential newspaper strips — Cham, Töpffer, eventually the American Sunday comics — that made the comic book possible.