"The Child of Good Breeding" from The Complete Works of Béranger 1836

"The Child of Good Breeding" is a lithograph by the French artist J. J. Grandville. Created in 1836, it depicts a man standing before a wall of portraits, admiring his family lineage. The image satirizes the idea of inherited social status, using caricature to humorously exaggerate the features of the subjects. The piece is part of Grandville's *Complete Works of Béranger*, a collection of lithographs illustrating satirical poems and songs by the French writer Pierre-Jean de Béranger. The artwork is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY.