Hand-coloured French satirical etching from 1818 , designed by Godisart de Cari for Martinet’s Musée Grotesque series

Comment le trouvez-vous? (How Do You Find Him?)

Plate 26: two men sampling wine from barrels in a cellar from the Musée Grotesque series

Godisart de Cari (1774-1848) Designer

Aaron Martinet (publisher), France, 1818

Hand-colored etching 

27 x 25 cm (plate)

Genre: Caricature / Satirical Print

Period: Post-Napoleonic France / Bourbon Restoration

This 1818 satirical print, Comment le trouvez-vous?, published by the prolific French caricaturist and print-seller Aaron Martinet, offers a biting visual commentary on post-revolutionary French society. Martinet's prints were affordable, widely distributed, and immensely popular with a public eager to critique or ridicule authority figures. The print blends humor with a sharp political edge, reflecting both popular scepticism and the freedom of the press that had briefly blossomed during the liberal moment following Napoleon’s fall.