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1969Best.-Nr. 83560New York Graphic Society Distributor ; Museum. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -Corresponds to ASIN: B001BK00OY. 265 pages many illustrations including severa in color 4to. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1969. New York Graphic Society (Distributor) ; Museum hardcover
1969Best.-Nr. 54172Cambridge Massachusetts: Fogg Art Museum. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - appears unread - Description: xiii 265 p. Illus. part col. 28 cm. Errata slip inserted -- with a bonus offer-- . 1969. 082120338X . Fogg Art Museum paperback
Best.-Nr. 06067Paris: N.p. 1895. A Unique Daumier Survival: Robert Macaire Boursier Issued as a Belle Époque Jig-Saw Puzzle Preserved in the Original Delvaux Paris Box DAUMIER Honoré. Robert Macaire Boursier. Caricaturana no. 29. Jig-Saw Puzzle. N.p. Paris n.d. circa 1895-1915. Folio 12 1/2 × 9 7/8 inches; 317 × 251 mm. Approximately eighty interlocking pieces. Finely colored print mounted on laminated wood approximately 1.5-3 mm thick precision-cut to form a complete jig-saw puzzle. Housed in the original Delvaux Paris box patterned and lettered "Delvaux" with retail address at 18 Rue Royale-Opéra Paris. An extraordinarily rare and apparently unrecorded adaptation of Daumier's most celebrated satirical image transforming Robert Macaire Boursier - the archetypal financier-swindler of the July Monarchy - into a luxury Belle Époque leisure object. While Daumier's Robert Macaire series is well documented in lithographic form no jig-saw or puzzle versions appear in the standard Daumier bibliographies. The quality of production chromolithographic coloring and machine-cut interlocking pieces place the object firmly in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century and suggest a sophisticated adult audience rather than a child's toy. The association with Delvaux one of Europe's oldest luxury houses is especially notable and points to a Parisian market for refined satirical amusements sold alongside high-end travel and novelty goods. The survival of the original Delvaux box is exceptional and may be unique in the Daumier field. The puzzle survives substantially complete with the image fully legible when assembled. A remarkable cross-category survival at the intersection of caricature material culture and luxury retail history and among the most unusual Daumier objects to appear on the market. Paris: N.p., 1895 unknown
Best.-Nr. 11591845. Hand colored lithograph on white wove paper from the most desirable series Daumier ever published. Delteil 1358ii. 10 ¾ x 7 ¾. Plate 22 from "Les Gens de Justice". Framed. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 11591845. Hand colored lithograph on white wove paper from the most desirable series Daumier ever published. Delteil 1358ii. 10 ¾ x 7 ¾. Plate 22 from "Les Gens de Justice". Framed.
1840Best.-Nr. 1649991840. FABRE Francois. Némésis Médicale Illustrée. Recueil de Satires. Two volumes. xxxii 278; 360 pp. illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Honoré Daumier. 4to 245 x 155 mm. marbled boards. Paris: Au Bureau de la Némésis Médicale 1840. A collection of medical satires written in twenty-five poems in rhyming couplets. Illustrated with thirty woodcuts and numerous vignettes by Daumier. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 16-3571Paris: Le Charivari 1870. Folio with 261 of 262 issues. 20th Century qtr. simili morocco and boards. Includes the original printings of many of Daumier's celebrated lithographs including the Franco-Prussian War Delteil 3757-381139e année du 1er janv. au 24 sept. 1870 soit 261 sur 262 numéros reliés en demi-toile brune à coins dos lisse reliure moderne ensemble lavé un seul numéro pour les 2 et 3 janv. les 2 et 3 mars les 18 et 19 avr. les 6 et 7 juin les 16 et 17 août manque 31 mars ; des numéros de mai sont mal classés. « Fondé le 1er déc. 1832 par Charles Philipon comme un journal d'opposition républicaine à la Monarchie de Juillet le journal satirique à vocation distractive s'affirma au cours de son histoire tantôt radical conservateur républicain ou encore anti-clérical. Ses auteurs les plus notables furent notamment Taxile Delord ou encore Agenor Altaroche et ses caricaturistes les plus marquants furent entre autres Philipon Nadar Gustave Doré Henri Rochefort Cham et Honoré Daumier. En baisse d'audience le journal disparait en 1937. Paris: Le Charivari, 1870 hardcover
1952Best.-Nr. C91976Pierre Cailler. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - - Text in French. 338 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'Œuvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . 1952. Pierre Cailler paperback
Best.-Nr. HD-146o.J. Lithographie, auf cremefarbenem Velin, mit den Adressen: Au bureau ,chez Aubert, pass. Véro-Dodat., sowie: Lith: Delaunois,r. du Bouloy,19. Darstellungsgröße 19,9:27,7 cm, Blattgröße 26,8: 33,5 cm. Literatur: Daumier-Register 86; Delteil 86; erschienen am 11.09.1834 in ?LA CARICATURE?., Nr. 201, Blattnummer 421. - Selten! - Sur blanc!
1960Best.-Nr. 91032Andre Sauret. As New. 1960. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee Andre Sauret hardcover
1952Best.-Nr. 91976Pierre Cailler. As New. 1952. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - - Text in French. 338 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee Pierre Cailler paperback
1833Best.-Nr. 1153Dec. 5 1833. Hand-colored lithograph printed on white wove paper Sur Blanc. Lithograph with contemporary hand coloring. Delteil 73 as pub. in La Caricature No.161 pl. 337 & 338. 13 ¼ x 17 3/8 with full margins. Chez Aubert, La Caricature books
1833Best.-Nr. 1221833. Lithograph with contemporary hand coloring sur blanc. Dec. 5 1833. Ref: Delteil 73 as published in La Caricature No. 161 pl. 337 and 338. 131.4mm x173.8mm. 13 x17. With full margins. Chez Aubert, La Caricature books
Best.-Nr. 6750Daumier Honore. Daumier Honore. BAISSER LE RIDEAU LA FARCE EST JOUEE. Delteil 86. Lithograph 1834. 8 1/8 x 11 inches; 204 x 280 mm. with wide margins. The penultimate state "sur blanc." A very good dark impression in very good condition except for a 1/4" spot or stain in the right margin about 1/2" outside the edge of the image. From The Daumeier Register: This print shows a masterly interpretation of King Louis-Philippe dressed in the costume of a clown while the theatre curtain falls. With a sardonic smile he points at "Blind Justitia" thereby insinuating Justice to be a farce. At the same time the parliamentarians disappearing in the dark are not living up to their responsibilities to protect the judicial system. The text on this print is a quote of the last words of Rabelais. When he died drunk he said "Draw the curtain the farce is ended". It is interesting to observe that the King was not to take a seat within Parliament but rather in a special box with a curtain towards the plenary. Between 1828 and 1832 Jules de Joly had architecturally redesigned the Chamber of the Palais Bourbon the seat of Parliament in a semi-circular form with upward sloping benches. The entire structure showed similarities to an ancient Roman theatre. Daumier frequently used the obvious parallel between politics and theatre in his drawings. Similar to the English division of power also the French King was not allowed to enter the Parliamentary Chamber under the French constitution. He had to remain "outside" in the Salon du Roi from where he was able to address the Deputies. The text on this print is a quote of the last words of RABELAIS. When he died drunk he said "Draw the curtain the farce is ended". We can assume that this print is referring to a debate of the ministers after the April 1834 riots where measures had been decided which should be taken against the opposition. Most likely this print refers to one of the usual changes of ministries during the early part of the citizen King's reign. The clown Pierrot is the classical personification of traditional pantomime. LA CARICATURE. After the July-Revolution and the reinstatement of the Freedom of the Press Charles Philipon 1800-1862 recognised the growing desire of the public for information. In 1830 he founded the political satirical illustrated paper LA CARICATURE succeeding LA SILHOUETTE which only had a shor unknown
Best.-Nr. 06001Paris: Chez Aubert 1849. 'Sketches of the Day' Thirty Superb Lithograph Plates by Daumier Beaumont Bouchot Cham & Vernier DAUMIER Honoré. BEAUMONT Édouard de. BOUCHOT Frederic. CHAM. & VERNIER Charles. Croquis du Jour. Paris: Chez Aubert 1849. Folio 13 9/16 x 10 1/8 inches; 345 x 257 mm. Thirty fine lithograph plates including Honoré Daumier 3; Edouard de Beaumont 6; Frederic Bouchot 6; Cham 8; and Charles Vernier 7. A few plates with mainly marginal light to moderate foxing otherwise fine. Early twentieth century half red morocco over red cloth boards ruled in gilt front cover with rectangular black morocco label bordered and lettered in gilt "Daumier / Croquis du Jour". Smooth spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt marbled endpapers. Original printed album wrapper "Album Comoique par C. Daumier" bound in. Corners a little worn otherwise near fine. The Plates: 1. Faut-it être dindon pour croire de pareils canards! You have to be a turkey to believe such nonsense! 2. EXPOSITION DE L'INDUSTRIE 1849. Qui est-ce qui m'a fichu une industrie aussi indécente que ça. Vernier INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION 1849. Who gave me such an indecent industry. 3. - C'est désolant madame Robillard on n'peut plus avoir de viande chez les bouchers! - Dam ça s'conçoit le boucher m'a dit que dans le grandes chaleurs ils aiment mieux ne tuer qu'une moitié de boeuf. Bouchot - It's sad Mrs. Robillard we can't get meat from the butchers anymore! - Dam that's understandable the butcher told me that in the hot weather they prefer to kill only half a beef. 4. - Monsieur vous n'auriez pas de Nouvelles à me donner de mon mari monsieur Bonnardin voilà trois jours qu'il est absent. il était sorti pour venir ici renouveler son abonnement!. - Le voilà madame le commissaire la trouvé dans le bureau du journal alors on la mis sous les scellés avec le reste Il est défendu d'y toucher! Cham - Sir you have no news to give me of my husband Mr. Bonnardin he has been absent for three days. he had gone out to come here to renew his subscription!. - There it is madam the commissioner found it in the newspaper office so it was sealed with the rest it is forbidden to touch it! 5. Par la chaleur le canon du Palais national prend feu à chaque instant. on ne sait plus sur quoi compter. Danger de lire le Constitutionnel au soleil à l'aide d'une loupe. Un monsieur qui a réellement chaud. Bouchot The cannon of the National Palace catches fire every moment because of the heat. we don't know what to count on anymore. It's dangerous to read the Constitutionnel in the sun with a magnifying glass. A gentleman who is really hot. 6. MORCEAU CAPITAL DE L'EXPOSITION. On ne sait ce qu'on doit le plus admirer ou de la patience du fabricant ou de celle de public qui attend chaque jour pendant quatre ou cinq heures un concert qui ne commence jamais. Vernier CAPITAL PIECE OF THE EXHIBITION. We do not know what we should admire most the patience of the manufacturer or that of the public who wait every day for four or five hours for a concert that never begins. 7. A QUOI ON EST EXPOSÉ A L'EXPOSITION. - Quand on vous dit de ne pas toucher aux machines! - C'est vos satanées machines qui nous touchent!. Vernier WHAT WE ARE EXPOSED TO AT THE EXHIBITION. - When they tell you not to touch the machines! - It's your damn machines that touch us!. 8. Le crieur ne pouvant plus crier cherche à expliquer par son costume qu'il a reçu des nouvelles importantes de Rome. Cham The crier unable to shout any longer tries to explain through his costume that he has received important news from Rome. 9. PRODIGE DE L'ÉBÉNISTERIE. - Enfin en fesant un dernier changement je transforme comme vou voyez mon lit en commode.je puis y serrer tout mes effets! - Oui mais quand vous vous mettez dans votre lit où diable fourrez vous vos chemises! Vernier PRODIGY OF CABINETMAKING. - Finally by making one last change I transform as you see my bed into a chest of drawers.I can put all my things in it! - Yes but when you get into your bed where the hell do you put your shirts! 10. Ou l'on reconnait l'agrément de porter perruque. Bouchot Or we recognize the pleasure of wearing a wig. 11. Les abonnés de la Presse s'apercevant qu'on leur fait faire fausse route. Cham The subscribers of the Press realizing that they are being led astray. 12. EXPOSITION DE SCULPTURE 1849. - C'est étonnant! Renversant! Allons nous-en ç'a pourrit devenir écrasant!. Vernier SCULPTURE EXHIBITION 1849. - It's amazing! Astounding! Let's go it's rotting to become overwhelming!. 13. UNE DOUBLE EXPOSITION. Meubles à vendre demoiselles à marier. Vernier A DOUBLE EXHIBITION. Furniture for sale bridesmaids to marry. 14. M'sieu y fait si chaud voulez-vous m'permettre de m'promener à l'ombre de vot' nez. Bouchot Sir it's so hot would you allow me to walk in the shade of your nose. 15. La Presse ou la nouvelle Pénélope. Cham The Press or the new Penelope. 16. UNE ÉDUCATION DIFFICILE. - Il y a deux ans il criait bien joliment vive le Roi!. Je lui ai fait oublier ça et maintenant il arrive à peu près à crier vive la République! Mais je ne sais pas s'il est prudent de continuer son education dans cette voie là - Que tu es bête Eugénie apprends lui donc tout simplement à crier vive Arthur!.au moins il y en a toujours eu et il y en aura toujours des Arthur! Beaumont A DIFFICULT EDUCATION. - Two years ago he was shouting very nicely long live the King!. I made him forget that and now he can almost shout long live the Republic! But I don't know if it is wise to continue his education in this way - How stupid you are Eugénie just teach him to shout long live Arthur!. at least there have always been and always will be Arthurs! 17. PARIS L'ÉTÉ. - Que je suis donc fâchée d'être sortie avec mon ombrelle j'aurais mieux fait de prendre mes socques et mon parapluie! Bouchot PARIS IN SUMMER. - How sorry I am to have gone out with my parasol I should have taken my clogs and my umbrella! 18. Ils prétendent qi'ils la soutiennent. Daumier DR 1937; Hazard & Delteil 1437. They just pretend that they are supporting her. 19. Tiens qu'est-ce que j'aperçois.ça doit être un réfugié étranger.dire que je vois peut-être les pieds de Garibaldi!. Beaumont Hey what do I see.it must be a foreign refugee.to think that I might see Garibaldi's feet!. 20. UNE MÉTAMORPHOSE. - Tu ne le reconnais pas.c'est Arthur.Arthur que tu as tant aimé.il est devenu socialiste! - Comment Arthur aussi.faut-il qu'il ait eu des créanciers! Beaumont A METAMORPHOSIS. - You don't recognize him.it's Arthur.Arthur you loved so much.he became a socialist! - What Arthur too.he must have had creditors! 21. Renouvelé de Lafontaine. Cham Renewed from Lafontaine. 22. Ces pauvres gens ont-ils chaud!.faut les débarrasser de leujrs habits ça les soulagera toujours un peu! Bouchot These poor people are they hot!.we must take off their clothes that will always give them a little relief! 23. - Encore un tour vous pariez toujours pour le petit Caporal n'est-ce pas - Ma foi je ne gagne rien avec lui je parie maintenant pour la rouge! Cham - One more round you still bet on the little Corporal don't you - Well I don't win anything with him I bet now on the red! 24. SOCIALISTE ET ARISTO. - Tu n'veux pas partager avec moi l'flan qu't'as.c'est bon qu'y vienne encore un' revolution j'te tremperai un' soupe! Beaumont SOCIALIST AND ARISTO. - You don't want to share with me the flan you have. it's fine when there's another revolution I'll dip you in some soup! 25. - Ah! Monsieur ne veut pas me dire où il a passé hier la soirée.ah monsieur ne veut pas me render de comptes.vous faites trop votre Gouvernement Provisoire mon cher ça ne pourra pas durer! Beaumont - Ah! Sir doesn't want to tell me where he spent the evening yesterday.ah sir doesn't want to give me an account.you're doing too much with your Provisional Government my dear it can't last! 26. En temps de revolution. Beaumont In times of revolution. 27. LA FEMME DU REPRÉSENTANT. - Mon ami j'ai besoin d'un chapeau - Ma bonne je suis représentant si tu as une demande à me faire adresse une pétition à la chambre. - Oui je te connais tu demanderas l'ordre du jour! Daumier DR 1938; Hazard & Delteil 1438. THE WIFE OF THE REPRESENTATIVE. - Will I need a hat Dear - My dear I am a representative now! If you want to ask me a question you must first file a petition in the Chamber! - Yes I know you. and then you'll call the order of the day! 28. - Tu connais bien l'gros député d'en face qu'est représentant à 25 francs par jour eh ben j'ai lu c'matin de dessus l'journal qu'on l'a chargé d'une commission! - Une commission ça s'paye généralement soixante quinze centimes sans la réponse encore. ça lui aura donc fait ce jour là 25 francs 15 sous qu'elle chance! Daumier DR 1939; Hazard & Delteil 1439. - You know the fat deputy in front who makes 25 Francs per day. Today I read in the paper that a commission was given to him. - For such an order one usually gets 75 cents if there is no reply. This would mean that makes 25 Francs and 15 Sous today. What luck! 29. LES REPRÉSENTANS PRENANT LEURS VACANCES. Le Président - Messieurs de grâce restez encore un quart d'heure.le temps seulement de voter encore une petite loi!. Cham THE REPRESENTATIVES TAKING THEIR VACATION. The President - Gentlemen please stay another quarter of an hour.just enough time to vote on one more small law!. 30. MR. de GIRARDIN ET SON MÉDECIN. - Vrai Mr. de Girardin vous devriez prendre des vacances; tous les travaux parlementaires que vous avez manqué executer toutes les lois que vous avez faille voter tout cela a dû vous fatigue beaucoup il faut donc que vous preniez de Nouvelles forces pour toutes les grandes choses que vous avez encore à manquer faire! Cham MR. de GIRARDIN AND HIS DOCTOR. - True Mr. de Girardin you should take a vacation; all the parliamentary work that you failed to carry out all the laws that you failed to vote all that must have tired you a lot so you must gather new strength for all the great things that you still have to do! Daumier Register DR-1937-1939; Hazard & Delteil 1437-1439. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1849 unknown
1833Best.-Nr. 1153Dec. 5 1833. Hand-colored lithograph printed on white wove paper Sur Blanc. Lithograph with contemporary hand coloring. Delteil 73 as pub. in La Caricature No.161 pl. 337 & 338. 13 ¼ x 17 3/8 with full margins. Chez Aubert, La Caricature
1833Best.-Nr. 122DAUMIER HONORE 1808-1879. PRIMO SAIGNARE DEINDE PURGARE POSTEA CLYSTERIUM DONARE FIRST HE BLEEDS THEM THEN HE PURGES THEM THEN HE GIVES THEM AN ENEMA. Lithograph with contemporary hand coloring sur blanc. Dec. 5 1833. Ref: Delteil 73 as published in La Caricature No. 161 pl. 337 and 338. 131.4mm x173.8mm. 13 x17. With full margins. Framed. This lithograph depicts the bleeding purging and medication of a man. The print shows from left to right: King Louis-Philippe a coachman the French people Ferdinand Duc d'Orléans and Marshal Lobau with his famous syringe. Louis-Philippe in 1833 bleeds a mail messenger postillon who has fallen off his horse thereby saving his life. The King had learned the art of blood-letting in a hospital in his youth and always carried a bleeding-knife on him. Symbolically it is not the postillon but rather the French nation which is being bled. Brandeis Univ. Chez Aubert, La Caricature
Best.-Nr. 02254Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. 1850. Love These Children! But the Joys and Sweets of Fatherhood Are Extremely Scarce DAUMIER Honoré. Henri-Daniel Plattel. Jules Platier. Ces Amours d'enfans. Joies et Douceurs de la Paternité. Paris: Aubert & Cie n.d. ca. 1850. Oblong octavo. Hand-colored lithographed title by Auguste Belin and sixteen hand-colored lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic eight by Daumier the remaining by Plattel or Platier. 16 pp. at rear as Aubert catalog. Publishers blind-stamped leather-grain red cloth over boards spine lettered in gilt "121" in gilt to upper cover. A very clean. bright and fine copy. Reversed restrikes from the Aubert series Croquis D'Expressions 100 lithographed prints originally appearing in Le Charivari 1838-1839 fifty-five of which were executed by Daumier the remainder by Henri-Daniel Plattel and Jules Platier. All artist signatures have been removed and the hand-coloring is far more bright and vivid than the original issue prints that we have seen. Croquis D'Expressions was never formally collected by Chez Aubert into an album. There are no copies of this later issue by Aubert collected under this new title in institutional holdings worldwide nor auction records. The Plates with Daumier Registry # where applicable: 1. Est-il gentil notre bibi! il a déja un petit air scélérat le gueux! Daumier DR #470. 2. Crie donc mátin!.égosille toi donc. et que çca finisse.ne pas fermer l'oeil pour un méchant moutard!.le diable emporte es enfans je n'en veux plus Daumier DR# 467. 3. Oh! ce Chérubin comme il dort gentiment! Tiens Gustave c'est ton portrait tout craché! Daumier DR# 513. 4. Allons bon les voilá tous trois partis.travaillez donc au milieu de ce charivari.chiens d'enfans! Daumier DR# 491. 5. Vous allex voir!.vous allez voir ça va arréter le sang comme avec la main!! Daumier DR# 497. 6. Oui ma chére laissez-moi lui donner cette petite soupe aux choux et vous verrez que ça lui vaudra mieux que tous leux drogues de médicine Plattel or Platier. 7. Hein! quelle jolie tournure!///faudra en faire in avocat pas vrai.ou ben un grand artiste. Plattel or Platier. 8. Puisuq tu es si riche ma tante vent bien t'epouser quoi que tu es bien laid et que tu n'as pas d'esprit du tout.c'est égal à ma tante.n'est ce pas ma tante Daumier DR# 505. 9. Appuyez fort gna rien de meyeur our les coupe ou les tombres as pas peur Guguste ca te guérira ti va voir Daumer DR# 492. 10. Tenez vous un peu tranquilles mes enfans vous finiriez peut-etre par ennuyer monsieur.Plattel or Platier. 11. Le Maitre: Qu entendez vous par l'axe d'un cercle. Plattel or Platier. 12. Lolo qu'aime tu mieux de ton papa ou de la maman - J'aime mieux les confitures Daumier DR# 500. 13. C'est vrai aussi vous la contrariez toujours cet enfant! Plattel or Platier. 14. Y disait comme ça: ton vieux grigou de père nous l'avons bien mis dedans. Plattel or Platier. 15. Allons bon! tu me fais porter le petit porter ton cabas tu me fais mouller.tu gardes le parapluie et tute plains Plattel or Platier. 16. Comment méchant vous pleurez vous criez toute la nuit.voulez vous bien vous taire et faire une petite risette à papa.Plattel or Platier. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1850 unknown books
Best.-Nr. 06082Paris: Aubert & Cie. 1848. A Superb Hand-Colored Anthology of French Romantic Caricature Twenty Magnificent Lithographs by Daumier Gavarni Bouchot Pruche & Platier from Aubert's Celebrated Étrennes Comiques BOUCHOT Frédéric. PRUCHE Clément. GAVARNI Paul. PLATIER Jules & DAUMIER Honoré. Étrennes Comiques par les Principaux Dessinateurs du Journal pour Rire du Charivari du Musée Philipon et de la maison Aubert. Paris: Aubert & Cie. ca. 1848. Folio 13 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches; 333 x 251 mm. Pictorial lithographic title-page and twenty magnificent hand-colored lithographs all heightened with gum arabic. The plates comprise works by Frédéric Bouchot 6 Clément Pruche 5 Paul Gavarni 4 Jules Platier 3 and Honoré Daumier 2. Title-page neatly strengthened at the inner margin without loss. One Daumier plate with a neatly repaired marginal tear just touching the image; one Pruche plate with repaired and strengthened outer blank margin. Early twentieth-century light brown cloth over boards front cover lettered in gilt. An exceptionally handsome publisher's anthology celebrating the golden age of French Romantic caricature. Issued as an étrennes - a luxurious New Year's gift volume - Aubert assembled a selection of hand-colored impressions by the principal artists associated with Le Charivari the Journal pour rire the Musée Philipon and the publishing house itself. Rather than presenting the work of a single artist the volume offers a carefully balanced survey of the finest comic lithography of the 1830s and 1840s bringing together the distinctive artistic personalities of Daumier Gavarni Bouchot Platier and Pruche within a single album. The album is distinguished not only by the importance of its contributors but also by the exceptional quality of its hand-coloring. Executed in delicate transparent washes and frequently heightened with gum arabic the coloring preserves the richness and subtlety of the original lithographic crayon while imparting remarkable brilliance to costume interiors architecture and landscape. The impressions are uniformly fresh and well preserved and are introduced by Aubert's splendid pictorial title-page - a spirited composition crowded with comic figures that serves as both an engaging frontispiece and a visual advertisement for the publishing house that dominated French satirical lithography during the July Monarchy. The variety of subjects is one of the volume's greatest attractions. Daumier contributes two penetrating social satires of characteristic psychological insight; Gavarni observes fashionable Parisian society with his unrivalled elegance and wit; Bouchot supplies a series of charming domestic comedies drawn from Soins Tyranniques and Trop Tôt; Platier contributes fashionable figures together with scenes from La Famille Bas-Bleu; while Pruche provides lively political caricatures humorous urban incidents and comic coaching scenes. Collectively the plates present an engaging panorama of Parisian life fashion domestic manners politics travel and social aspiration during the closing years of the July Monarchy. The present volume is of particular bibliographical interest. We have previously handled another copy bearing the identical engraved title-page but containing an entirely different selection of hand-colored lithographs by Daumier Vernier Traviès Gavarni Platier and Bouchot. This strongly suggests that Aubert assembled these luxurious Étrennes Comiques albums from changing stocks of hand-colored impressions rather than issuing them in a fixed format. Each surviving copy is therefore effectively unique preserving not only a delightful anthology of French Romantic caricature but also important evidence of Aubert's publishing and marketing practices during the great flowering of nineteenth-century French satirical lithography. Paris: Aubert & Cie.,, 1848 unknown
Best.-Nr. 05702Paris: Chez Aubert 1849. A Fine Publisher's Album containg Forty Fine Lithographs by Daumier Cham and Vernier DAUMIER Honoré. CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé. VERNIER Charles. Actualites etc. spine titled n gilt Vérités. Paris: Chez Aubert 1849-1855. Folio 13 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches; 348 x 260 mm. A publisher's album of forty superb lithographs. The plates are by Cham 8; Honoré Daumier 19; and Vernier 13. The series represented are: Actualités 26; Physionomie de l'Assemblée 5; Les Représentans Représentés 3; Croquades Politiques 3 Croquis du Jour 2 and Idylles Parlementaires 1. Contemporary ca. 1855 three-quarter dark green calf over dark green patterned cloth boards. Spine triple-ruled in gilt the title Vérités also in gilt plain endpapers. The series Physionomie de L'Assemblée published 1849-1851 was comprised of thirty-two lithographed plates. The series Actualités published 1854-1855 was comprised of 144 lithographed plates of which only seventy-five were by Daumier the remaining by Cham and Vernier. "This album Actualitiés may stand as an example of Daumier's political caricatures for Le Charivari during the 1850s. The Plates: 1. UN DUEL QUI N'AURA PAS LIEU. Le Constitutionnel prévoyant qu-on va plumer les canards cherche à placer ceux qu-il a engraissés dernièrement dans ses colonnes. Cham. Actualités 28 A DUEL THAT WILL NOT TAKE PLACE. Le Constitutionnel foreseeing that the ducks are going to be plucked seeks to place those he has recently fattened in his columns. 2. La Grisette Française prenant sous sa protection les pauvres petits romans pourchassés par Bazile. Vernier. Actualités 25 La Grisette Française taking under her protection the poor little novels pursued by Bazile. 3. Oui madame Chaboulard y a vingt-quatre épiciers qui se sont réunis et qui ont fait le serment de massacrer le président Dupin. - En v'la une horreur!. mais aussi pourquoi le gouvernement ne fait pas surveiller davantage les épiciers. il y a longtemps que je l'ai dit tous les épiciers sont des scélérats!. à preuve que le mien m'a vendu hier pour deux sous de moutarde et il ne m'en a pas donné pour six liards. j'vas le dénoncer y doit être un des vint-quatre! Daumier DR 2040. Actualités 27 - Yes Madame Chaboulard there were 24 grocers who have conspired to assassinate the President Mr. Dupin! - How awful. but I always said why doesn't the government watch the grocers more closely!. it is long time that I said all grocers are scoundrels. for example mine sold me today mustard for 2 sous. he wouldn't give it to me for six farthings. I must go and denounce him. he surely must be one of those twenty four. 4. Un Cauchemar de Mr. Dupin: - cet infortuné Président rêve qu-un de ses ennemis acharnés a l'infernale idée de l'étouffer à l'aide d'une livre de chandelles. Cham. Actualités 32 A Nightmare of Mr. Dupin: - this unfortunate President dreams that one of his bitter enemies has the infernal idea of suffocating him with a pound of candles. 5. Ce char marchera toujours ils auront beau vouloir mettre des bâtons dans les roues! Daumier DR 1915. Actualités 36 This chariot will always move forward even if they try in vain to put sticks in the wheels. 6. Non content d'avoir fait un procès au Charivari le Pharmacien Véron aidé de Melpomène veut se livrer encore à la vengeance la plus terrible de tout le répertoire du théâtre Français. Cham. Actualités 51 Not content with having put Charivari on trial the Pharmacist Véron helped by Melpomène wants to once again indulge in the most terrible revenge in the entire repertoire of French theater. 7. Mimi Véron croit avoir enfin trouvé le véritable moyen de pulvériser son ennemi. Daumier DR 1981. Actualités 58 Mimi Véron believes to finally having found a genuine way of pulverizing his enemy. 8. Nouvelle loi sur l'enseignement: - Ce sont les instituteurs qui reçoivent la férule. Vernier. Actualités 64 New law on education: - It is the teachers who receive the rule. 9. LA NOTE OU LA VIE. Manière délicate dont s'y prennent les Anglais pour réclamer une dette à un peuple ami: - Vingt-quatre heures pour payer et les intérêts à douze pour cent! Daumier DR 1988. Actualités 75 MONEY OR LIFE! A delicate way used by the English to extort funds from a friendly nation. Twenty four hours to pay at an interest of twelve percent. 10. INTERVENTION DE LA FRANCE ENTRE LA GRÈCE ET L'ANGLETERRE. - Allons allons.soyons calmes!.les disputes sont défendues pour le moment en Europe!. Cham. Actualités 76 INTERVENTION OF FRANCE BETWEEN GREECE AND ENGLAND. - Come on come on.let's be calm!.disputes are forbidden for the moment in Europe!. 11. Les Augures de l'Empire s'apprêtant à consulter les entrailles des canards sacrés avant que César ne choisisse d'autres ministres. Daumier DR 1996. Actualités 97 The soothsayers in action before Caesar chooses his ministers. 12. Une conversion inattendue. Vernier. Actualités 113 An unexpected conversion. 13. Seul costume réellement approprié à ce personnage qui a été qualifié à tort du titre de Burgrave. Daumier DR 2006. Actualités 118 This is the only really appropriate costume for this person who inappropriately received the title of Burgrave. 14. SOUVENIRS DE LA FÊTE DU 4 MAI 1850. Place de la Concorde. Embellissemens allégoriques et symboliques analogues aux circonstances! - Une borne entourée de momies. Vernier. Actualités 121 MEMORIES OF THE FEAST OF MAY 4 1850. Place de la Concorde. Allegorical and symbolic embellishments analogous to the circumstances! - A terminal surrounded by mummies. 15. Jupiter sommant Mr. Charles Dupin de lui restituer immédiatement le costume et las attributs qu'il a dérobés à Cérès pour présider le Congrés d'Agriculture. Cham. Actualités 123 Jupiter summoning Mr. Charles Dupin to immediately return to him the costume and attributes that he stole from Ceres to preside over the Agricultural Congress. 16. Les moucherons politiques. Daumier DR 2012. Actualités 130 The political midgets. 17. Vivement émus par la proposition-Grammont touchant le transférement du Gouvernement à Versailles plusieurs représentans se donnent la mission d'arrêter et de fouiller chaque Coucou pour vérifier si le gouvernement ne serait pas dans la voiture. Cham. Actualités 151 Strongly moved by the Grammont proposal concerning the transfer of the Government to Versailles several representatives took on the mission of stopping and searching each Coucou to check if the government would not be in the car. 18. Furieux de voir que leurs terribles prédictions ne se sont pas réalissèes les Burgraves ne voulant pas en avoir le démenti se travestissent en vile multitude et se mettent à faire une barricade avec tous les matériaux qui leur tombent sous la main. Vernier. Actualités 139 Furious to see that their terrible predictions have not come true the Burgraves not wanting to be denied disguise themselves as a vile multitude and begin to make a barricade with all the materials that come to hand. 19. Les nouveaux Icares. Daumier DR 2013. Actualités 140 The new Icaruses. 20. LES FRICOTEURS POLITIQUES. La France. - Hum!. hum!. ça me fait l'effet d'être une assez mauvaise cuisine! Daumier DR 2014. Actualités 142 TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH. This really tastes lake bad cooking. 21. Grandes manoeuvres du petit Thiers. Vernier. Actualités 143 Great maneuvers from little Thiers. 22. Les modernes Cyclopes occupés à forger de nouvelles entraves à la liberté: - par suite d'une singulière bizarrerie de la nature ces Cyclopes ne voient clair que de l'oeil droit. Vernier. Actualités 157 The modern Cyclops busy forging new obstacles to freedom: - as a result of a singular oddity of nature these Cyclops only see clearly with their right eye. 23. - Comment!.vous aussi chevalier Véron vous passez au camp des démagogues!. Vernier. Actualités 167 - How!.you too Chevalier Véron you are going to the camp of the demagogues!. 24. LA CLASSE DE MR. DUPIN. - Oh! m'sieu m'sieu!.ça sera-t-il bientôt les vacances - Je ne demande pas mieux que vous partiez en vacances!.quel débarrs pour moi bon dieu quel débarras! Cham. Actualités 170 THE CLASS OF MR. DUPIN. - Oh! m'sieu m'sieu!.will it be vacation soon - I couldn't ask for anything better than you going on vacation!.what a relief for me good God what a relief! 25. Dites donc M'sieu Colimard c'est il vrai que le gouvernement va maintenant forcer tous les journalistes à porter un uniforme et qu'on fera payer un cautionnement à tous les abonnés. Daumier DR 2025. Actualités 175 Tell me Mr. Colimard. is it true that the Government is forcing all journalist from now on to wear a uniform and that all subscribers to newspaper have to pay a bond 26. HORACE CENSURÉ. Ah! Ah!.mon gaillard tu feras des allusions politiques!.eh bien vl'an! Vernier. Actualités 181 27. Buffet pendant six mois du ministère membre Contemplant ses attraits au bord du clair miroir Cherche à savoir d'où vient qu'on tient loin du pouvoir. Le Narcisse du dix Décembre. Viennet autre impromptu. Daumier DR 2057. Idylles Parlementaires 8 Buffet for six months has been a ministry member Contemplating his attributes at the edge of the clear mirror Searching to know from which comes far from power. The Self-love of the 10th of December. Viennet other impromptu. 28. La salle des pas perdus. Séance ordinaire. Daumier DR 1950. Physionomie de l'Assemblée 4 The lobby. A routine session. 29. Entrée en classe du jeune Estancelin. Sortie de la classe. Daumier DR 1967. Physionomie de l'Assemblée 21 First appearance in class of young Estancelin. Exit of the school boys. 30. Séance de nuit. Passé sept heures du soir les petits ne se hasardent pas à sortir de la salle sans les grands. Daumier DR 1969. Physionomie de l'Assemblée 23 Night session. In the evening after 7 o'clock the little one is afraid to leave the hall without the big one. 31. Il demande tous les jours la parole mais lorsqu'on la lui accorde il ne s'en sert jamais. Mr. de Montalembert au Prône de l'Assemblée Nationale. Daumier DR 1970. Physionomie de l'Assemblée 24 Each day he asks to be heard but when he is given the word he has nothing to say. Monsieur de Montalembert on the pulpit of the National Assembly. 32. Une petite séance à la buvette. Arrivée d'un représentant en colimaçon. Daumier DR 1974. Physionomie de l'Assemblée 28 A little session in the bar next door. Arrival of a deputy in a carriage called a snail. 33. LABOULIE. - Avant d'être représentant de Marseille Laboulie a du être professeur de quatrième dans un collège ou chef d'institution - Rien qu'à première vue les parens des élèves disaient de lui homme sévère mais juste! - On peut reprocher à Laboulie une pose orgueilleuse mais cet amour propre est bien naturel chez un homme qui sait un peu le grec! Daumier DR 1863. Les Représentans Représentés. Assemblée Législative 15 LABOULIE. Before being a representative of Marseilles Laboulie must have been a professor of eighth grade at a middle school college or head of an institution. At first sight the parents of the students said he was a strict but just gentleman! One can criticize Laboulie for his proud attitude but this self love comes quite natural to a man who knows some Greek. 34. PARRIEU. Le bon Parrieu occupé à détailler tous les avantages que son projet de loi paternel assure à tous les maîtres d'écoles de France. Portrait dédié par Daumier aux instituteurs. Daumier DR 1874. Les Représentans Représentés. Assemblée Législative 26 PARRIEU. We see the good Parrieu presenting his arguments for a new paternal law to all elementary school teachers in France. Daumier dedicates this portrait to all teachers. 35. VAULABELLE. Ancien ministre de l'instruction publique. - Vaulabelle pendant les quelques semaines qu'il est resté au ministère a expédié aux recteurs une foule d'avis conseils explications et instructions. Aujourd'hui encore il se distingue du reste des mortels en portant un col de chemise circulaire. Daumier DR 1837. Les Représentans Représentés 38 VAULABELLE. Former Minister for Public Education Vaulabelle during the few weeks he served as minister sent a mass of opinions advice explanations and instructions to the vice chancellors. Still today he is distinguished from the rest of us mortals by wearing a circular collared shirt. 36. La République démocratique et sociale désolée de voir que pour faire traîner son char elle ne peut même pas compter sur les domestiques. Cham. Croquades Politiques 12 The democratic and social Republic is sorry to see that to drag its chariot it cannot even count on servants. 37. Grandes giboulées du mois de Mai. Vernier. Croquades Politiques 17 Major showers in May. 38. LES PARISIENS EN 1849. - Qu'y a-t-il donc mossieu - Si vous voulez voir Boichot courez vous n'avez pas une minute à perdre! Vernier. Croquades Politiques 28 THE PARISIANS IN 1849. - What's the matter mossieu - If you want to see Boichot run you don't have a minute to lose! 39. MORCEAU CAPITAL DE L'EXPOSITION. On ne sait ce qu'on doit le plus admirer ou de la patience du fabricant ou de celle du public qui attend chaque jour pendant quatre ou cinq heures un concert qui ne commence jamais. Vernier. Croquis du Jour 6 CAPITAL PIECE OF THE EXHIBITION. We don't know what we should admire more or the patience of the manufacturer or that of the public who wait every day for four or five hours for a concert that never begins. 40. PRODIGE DE L'ÉBÉNISTERIE. - Enfin en fesant un dernier changement je transforme comme vous voyez mon lit en commode.je puis y serrer tout mes effets! - Oui mais quand vous vous mettez dans votre lit où diable fourrez vous vos chemises! Vernier. Croquis du Jour 9 WONDERFUL WOODWORKER. - Finally by making one last change I transform as you see my bed into a chest of drawers.I can hold all my belongings there! - Yes but when you get into bed where the hell do you put your shirts! 41. Untitled. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1849 unknown
Best.-Nr. 06169Paris: Imprimerie d'Aubert & Cie 1842. Parisian Emotions as Depicted by Honoré Daumier Fifty Superb Lithographs Depicting the Diverse Feelings of Typical Frenchmen DAUMIER Honoré. Album Comique par Daumier Emotions Parisiennes. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant & du Petit Journal pour Rire 1842. Folio 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches; 343 x 264 mm. Twenty-three of fifty-one superb lithograph plates all headed Emotions Parisiennes. Publisher's gray printed wrappers. A near fine example. "The central panel in Daumier's 'immense satirical fresco of the French bourgeoisie during the first half of the nineteenth century' Champfleury quoted by Beraldi V 108 is constituted by four major series: Les beaux jours de la vie Moeurs conjugales Le bons bourgeois eighty-two plates 1847-1849 and Tout ce qu'on voudra seventy plates 1847-1851. These display the private lives of the middle class generally as do such shorter albums as Croquis d'expressions fifty-three plates 1838-1839 and Emotions parisiens fifty-one plates 1839-1842" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book p. 230. "This series of 51 prints is by common consent one of Daumier's best groups of illustrations concerning the diverse feelings of typical Frenchmen." Ramus. Daumier. 120 Great Lithographs p. 125. There is some uncertainty as to the number of plates in this scarce work in which Ramus calls for fifty-one lithographs. The confusion comes from the first entry DR 635 in the Daumier Register. This plate was first issued in Le Charivari on October 24th 1839 and was not published in book form until 1843 when it appeared in Album Moeurs Conjugales. To further add to the confusion DR 692 is the same plate as DR 635. The plates in the present volume are numbered one through fifty - so it is fairly safe to assume that our copy with fifty plates the same number of plates as the Morgan Library/Gordon Ray copy is complete as DR-692 and DR-635 were not issued in this volume Les Émotions Parisiennes which was first published in the winter of 1842. According to OCLC there is only one copy listed in Libraries and Institutions worldwide The Morgan Library & Museum NY have the Gordon Ray copy with fifty plates although it appears that the plates are not colored and they have erroneously listed the date of publication as 1860. There are a handful of Libraries that in total have tenuncolored plates. These fifty lithographs first appeared in Le Charivari between July 14th 1839 and October 30th 1842. Exceptionally rare - In over fifty years other than the Christie's copy in 1995 I have only seen part of this series DJB. Daumier Registry numbers 684-691 693-759 The Plates: 1. Sont-il fade! . . . .regarde donc comme ils s'en sauvent! . . . . ce que c'est de ne pas vivre dans une chose!!! . . . . Mes petits amours quand vous repasserez faudra prévenir on vous brûlera des pastilles du Sérail. . . . . DR 684 How silly ! Just look how they run. That's what you get when you are at the wrong place. Just you wait! Next time tell us in advance and we'll take good care of you. 2. L'OR EST UNE CHIMÈRE. Pour ceux qui n'ont pas le Sou. DR 685 GOLD IS A MYTH. For those short of small change. 3. J'ai trois sous! DR 686 I have three sous 15 cents. "Daumier here depicts an indigent but still smiling Parisian perhaps savoring the aroma of a meal he knows he can ill afford. Three sous was about one-eighth of the cost of a meal in a cheap restaurant." Beatrice Farwell. The Charged Image #36 pp.61-62. 4. Visite matinale d'un Créancier à propos de Bottes. DR 687 Early morning visit of a creditor concerning the boots. 5. -Ecoutez donc Municipal ! je me suis marié hier! je rentre de ma noce et je vais me coucher! - Il faut me suivre; c'est la loi! - Mais le mariage aussi est une loi!. DR 688 - Listen to me policeman! I just got married yesterday I returned from my wedding and I am going to bed! - You will have to come with me. it's the law! - But marriage is also a law! 6. Merci! va dîner en ville mon garçon. DR 689 Thank you! ready do dine out old boy!. 7. Monsieur est malade il ne reçoit personne. DR 690 Monsieur is indisposed and will not receive anyone! 8. Cabriolet là M'sieu là M'sieu. - je n'ai pas Seulement de quoi aller à pied. DR 691 - Taxi Monsieur Taxi - I don't even have enough to walk. 9. Oh Patrie!!! DR 693 Oh my fatherland!!! 10. Fichtre!. que ces êtres-là sont sciants!. DR 694 Damn! These people are really annoying! 11. Quelle heure est-il s'il vous plait. DR 695 What time is it please. 12. Avoir perdu sa demi tasse au Domino et sa bourse dans la rue. DR 696 To have lost his bets in Domino. and his purse on the street. 13. Volé! . . . . Rue vide gousset . . . . . . DR 697 Robbed! Empty-Pocket street. 14. Ces Messieurs pour aller dîner en ville sont forcés de passer devant leur Bottier. DR 698 In order to get to the restaurant these gentlemen have to pass the shop of their boot maker. 15. Mais garçon c'est indigne. je prends un verre de bierre et on me prend mon chapeau que voulez-vous que je fasse de ça; j'aime mieux une marmite: donnez-moi une marmite!. DR 699 But waiter this is incredible. I come here for a beer and my hat is gone. What do you want me to do with this thing I might just as well put a pot over my head. 16. Garçon!. - voilà!. - mais il y a cinq quarts d'heure que je vous demande un beifsteack et que vous me dites voilà; je veux manger autre chose. DR 700 - Waiter! - Coming. - But I ordered my beefsteak an hour and a quarter ago and you keep telling me that it is coming. I want to eat something else! 17. Comment à Chaillot!. Mais en montant vous m'avez dit Bercy - vous m'avez payé et je vous ai dit merci!. - Cré nom de nom!. allons reconduisez-moi. - du tout il est minuit nous ne marchons plus. - Cré nom de nom!. DR 701 - What do you mean: to Chaillot! You wanted me to drive you to Bercy you paid me I thanked you. - Damned. Drive me back! - I can't we don't drive past midnight. - Damned damned. 18. Un fiacre à l'heure. DR 702 A Carriage paid by the hour. 19. LE DÉGRAISSEUR EN PLEIN VENT. - Veux-tu me lâcher gredin comment je suis forcé coquin de passer devant toi brigand pour aller à mon bureau misérable! Et voilà trois habits que tu me dégrades canaille!!. DR 703 CLEANING ON THE STREET. - Leave me alone you cretin!! Every time I go to the office I have to pass by here!. you have already ruined three suits you thief! 20. Ah bah!. Le locataire du premier qui prend la taille à mon épouse!. DR 704 Eh!. The tenant of the first floor is putting his arm around my wife's waist! 21. LA QUEUE AU SPECTACLE. Et les sans-coeur crient contre l'autorité que les empèche de s'écraser et qui passe sa vie dans la neige et dans la crotte voilà pourtant le sort des gouvernements!. DR 705 A QUEUE AT THE THEATRE. These ignorants are screaming against this person of authority who is protecting them from being crushed and who spends his life in snow and mud. Such is the fate of a civil servant! 22. Pardon Monsieur je suis courtier de Commerce attaché aux pompes funèbres et je venais voir!. si Monsieur. DR 706 Excuse me Sir I am an assistant at the funeral parlor and I just came by to see whether . 23. Noir et Blanc. DR 707 Black and white. 24. Ah! .excusez. DR 708 Oh! so sorry. 25. Il faut semer de fleurs le chemin de la vie!. DR 709 Life's path should be strewn with flowers! 26. Chapeau Ballon de la fabrique de Léger Rue des Quatre Vents. DR 710 A "Balloon Hat" from the "Light factory" located in the "Street of the four winds". 27. C'est unique! j'ai pris quatre tailles juste comme celles là dans ma vie; Fifine ma première! Cocotte cette gueuse de Cocotte! la grande Mimi et mon épouse là haut dans le coin. DR 711 It's unique! I had my arms around these four waists in my life: Fifine my first one Cocotte that little tart big Mimi and my wife up there in the corner! 28. - Eh te v'là mon pauvre fieu! comme te vlà beau! viens donc baiser ton père! - Le fils qui s'est formé l'esprit et le coeur à Paris répond avec âme: Connais pas!!. DR 712 - Oh here you are my poor dear. darn it how handsome you are! Come and give your father a kiss. - The son who has educated his senses in Paris replies: I Don't know you! "This lithograph demonstrates the cultural difference - always extreme in France - between the country and the city particularly Paris. Massive migration from the country to Paris in this period resulted in social dislocations reflected in the art of Courbet as well as that of Daumier. Instead of the more common theme of the country girl who goes to town and becomes a prostitute Daumier depicts a young man whose soul has preferred to forget his peasant father under the influence of life as a dandy in Paris." Beatrice Farwell. The Charged Image #37 pp.61-63. 29. C'est embêtant! ça vous passe devant .le nez.et on s'en va en chantant. "Hélas! elle a fui comme une ombre!." DR 713 It's annoying! She passes right in front of your nose you sing and without even looking at you she disappears like a shadow. 30. LE MÉDECIN ET LA GARDE MALADE. - Comment va le malade Hélas Monsieur il est mort ce matin à 6 heures! Ah! il est mort le gaillard!. Il n'a donc pas pris ma potion - Si Monsieur. - Il en a donc trop pris - Non Monsieur. - C'est qu'il en a pas assez pris. DR 714 THE DOCTOR AND THE NURSE. - How is the patient - Alas he died this morning at six o'clock. - Oh then he didn't take my medicine - Oh yes he did Monsieur. - Then he must have taken too much of it! - No Doctor. - In that case he hasn't taken enough of it. 31. Saisissement. DR 715 A seizure. 32. - De quoi! de quoi! on y va. dirait-on pas que le feu est à la maison - Laissez moi donc tranquille avec votre feu. je gèle. Voilà deux heures que je suis là à la porte à donner des coups de marteau. - à part. Ça t'apprendra à ne pas donner la pièce. DR 716 - Alright alright I'm coming - one would think the house was on fire! - Enough about your fire!. I'm freezing. For two hours I've been pounding on the door. - aside that will teach you next time not to give a tip! 33. "Nouveau parapluie par Brévet d'invention ressorts perfectionnés s'ouvrant avec une merveilleuse facilité" Voir aux annonces. DR 717 New patented umbrella with an improved spring system to swiftly open at the slightest touch. please refer to our advertisement in the matter. 34. Un Monsieur au dessous de ses affaires. DR 718 A man whose affairs have gone awry. 35. Ingrate patrie tu n'auras pas mon oeuvre!. DR 719 Ungrateful country. you shall not have my masterpiece! 36. Les Crétins! ils m'ont dégommé moi qui occupe une position sociale! et pour nommer qui.un bonnetier!. DR 720 These cretins!. they have dismissed me. Me who hold a position of social importance!. just to appoint this. hat maker! 37. Pour lors c'est donc nous qui sommes dans le pétrin. DR 721 So it is us now who are in a kneading-trough. 38. ORIGINE DES BÉDOINS A PARIS. - Tiens c'est Fouilloux!. bon jou Fouilloux. bon jou Fouilloux.d'puis quand donc qu'tés Bédouin- N'm'en parle pas Moussard!. j'ai z'été louer ce costume Chicandar pour aller au bal du Grand Vainqueur Dimanche et j'm'ai tant raffraichi avec du vin chaud et du veau froid que quand j'ai voulu aller reprendre les habits d'mon sesque chez l'Costumier et quand il a fallu payer sept livres dix sous j'avais pas un Monaco. c'Brigand d'Cosutmier m'a forcé de vendre des dattes d'Alger jusqu'à ce que j'lui ai gagné c'que j'lui dois!. achète moi z'en Moussard c'est un' confiture naturelle bonne pour l'estomac! - De quoi!. de quoi!. j'aime mieux des pommes de terre frites. - T'es donc pas mon ami. Moussard - Pus souvent. les amis n'sont pas des Turcs! DR 722 ORIGIN OF BEDOUINS IN PARIS. - Well isn't that Fouilloux! Since when have you become a Bedouin - Don't remind me of it Moussard! I have rented this costume for the ball on Sunday. After too much hot wine and cold veal I wanted to get my clothes back and return the costume. I was too broke to pay the 7 pounds 10 sous so this robber of a costume lender forced me to sell dates from Algiers until I can pay back my debts. Please Moussard wouldn't you want to buy some they are good for your stomach. - Rather not I prefer French fries. - So you're not my friend anymore - Well most of my friends are not Bedouins! 39. L'AMITIÉ D'UN GRAND CHIMISTE N'EST PAS UN BIENFAIT DES DIEUX. Je suis tellement sur de mon fait que maintenant si vous le désirez je vais empoisonner mon ami intime Mr. Coquardeau et je retrouverai de l'arsenic dans le verre de ses lunettes. DR 723 FRIENDSHIP WITH A GREAT CHEMIST IS NOT ALWAYS A GODSEND. I am so sure of my findings that I will now poison my best friend Mr. Coquardeau and I will retrieve arsenic in his eyeglasses. 40. Flanerie par le dégel. - Po.po.polisson ! - De quoi !. de quoi !. puisque j'vous dis que j'visais Gugusse. est y embêtant c'grand là ! - J'irai me plaindre à tes Pa.pa.parents. et au Co. co. commissaire !. et nous verrons voir ! - Ah ! tu veux voir toi !. attends j'te va boucher l'autre fenêtre ! DR 724 A stroll in the thaw. - Ra.ra.rascal! - Not at all since I am telling you that I aimed at my friend Gugusse. - I will complain with your pa.pa.parents and the po.po.police and we will see then. - Oh you want to see!. well just you wait and I will punch you in your other eye as well! 41. Equitation boutiquière sur des chevaux de louage et où il n'y a pas autre chose à louer. DR 754 Shopkeepers on hired horses where there is nothing else to hire. 42. LES BADAUDS. On ne veut pas croire il est impossible de croire que ce pauvre pêcheur perché sur un bateau soit le motif de ce rassemblement. A coup sûr les parisiens cette caste intelligente et active est clouée là par un évènement grave une modiste un paire de france un Md. de marrons un candidat à l'Accadémie victime de l'amour ou de l'ambition!. Eh bien non c'est réellement un goujon que vous ne voyez pas et qu'ils ne voient pas non plus. DR 755 BYSTANDERS. You can hardly believe actually it's impossible to believe that this poor fisherman perched on a boat is the only reason for this gathering. With a sure instinct the Parisians this intelligent and energetic cast are nailed to the ground by a serious incident a milliner a peer of France a chestnut vendor a candidate for the Academy a victim of love or ambition!. Ah well no it's really a gudgeon that you aren't seeing and that they aren't seeing either. 43. Un soi disant Négociant victime de ses victimes fou dissipateur et intrigant qui donne un pour cent à ses créanciers payable en dix ans souffle sur le passé se moque de l'avenir et se pavane en gants jaunes au bois de Boulogne au Boulevard des Italiens aux foyers des Théâtres où il parle d'honneur de probité appelle ses créanciers voleurs: se pose en victime politique industrielle et morale! et éclabousse tout le monde. DR 756 This is a so called merchant victim of his victims crazy squanderer and intriguing. He pays 1% to his creditors for 10 years forgets about the past does not care about the future struts about the Bois de Boulogne with his yellow gloves strolls along the boulevard des Italiens and theatre lobbies. He talks of honour and decency and calls his creditors thieves. He loves the pose of the political industrial and moral victim and splashes the whole world. 44. - Eh bien! et cette matelotte quand la mangerons nous - Quand vous voudrez.- Oui mais vous savez avec du vin de Bordeaux. - Vous en avez Non pas! c'est vous qui l'avez perdu! - Ou ça - Au piquet chez Goulard. - Qu'est-ce que c'est ça Goulard - Ah ça mais! vous n'êtes donc pas Mr. Vergeot - Du tout. Et vlà une heure que vous me répondez! - Dame oui j'ai cru que vous m'invitiez et on connait toujours quelqu'un qui vous invite! DR 757 - Well when are we going to have that fish stew - Whenever you like. - Yes but with a nice Bordeaux wine right - Have you got some - No! You were the one who lost it. - Where should I have lost it - In Goulard's bar. - I don't know anything of that name. - But then are you not Mr. Vergeot - Not at all. and we have been talking for an hour. - And I thought all this time that you wanted to invite me. You usually meet someone who wants to invite you. 45. Mr. Tout affaires avocat sans causes se donne l'air empressé et renverse chaque jour dans la salle des pas perdus une douzaine de moutards écrase cinq ou six carlins et espère grace à cette gymnastique faire croire à ses nombreux clients. DR 758 Mr. Busybody a lawyer without a case pretends to be most busy knocks down a dozen children every day in the lobby runs over five or six pug-dogs and hopes - thanks to these gymnastics - to make the people believe that he has many clients. 46. Eh bien oui ! c'est comme je vous le dis la petite à Mame Chopin s'est mariée hier avec le fils Durand: je quitte le jeune homme et d'après ce qu'il m'a confié il paraît qu'avant lui elle en a vu des droles !. DR 759 Well yes it's true the daughter of Mme Chopin got married yesterday with the son of Durand. I just talked to the young man and from what he told me in full confidence she must have had some strange ones before him. 47. Ma patrie à moi c'est la semelle de mes bottes.hélas je n'aurai bientôt plus de patrie. DR 725 What's my fatherland to me that's like the sole of my boots. well looks like I'll soon be stateless. 48. Le président. Vous avez eu des moyens d'existence qu'en avez-vous fait Le prévenu. J'ai existé avec. DR 726 - The president You did have means of existence what did you do with them - The accused I existed. 49. - Cocher êtes-vous loué - Non bourgeois. - Eh bien : "Aimez qu'on vous conseille et non pas qu'on vous loue." DR 727 - Coachman are you booked - No citizen. - Well then: you'd rather accept being advised than hired out Note: Play on words. LOUER means to hire book as well as to praise 50. UNE VICTIME DES FACTIONS. Ha.a. at.stchutz!! allons bon v'la mon nez qui pleut aussi. Décidément Mr. Jacqueminot devrait dresser des canards pour monter la garde par ce temps-ci. et encore ha. a . at stchutz! ils s'enrhumeraient. DR 728 A VICTIM OF SENTRY DUTY. Ha.a.at.chiii!! there goes my nose raining as well. Mr. Jacqueminot should really train ducks to stand guard in a weather like this and they too probably would catch a cold. Charles F. Ramus Daumier. 120 Great Lithographs numbers: 23 24 25 & 26; Ray. The Art of the French Illustrated Book p. 230; Armand Hammer Daumier Collection. Numbers 44 illustrated-uncolored and 45. Paris: Imprimerie d'Aubert & Cie, 1842 unknown
Best.-Nr. 05703Paris: Chez Aubert 1833. One of the earliest sustained attempts in European graphic art to render political power as embodied psychology rather than symbolic caricature" Orléanist Politicians as Seen by Daumier DAUMIER Honoré. Célébrités de la Caricature. Paris: Chez Aubert 1833. Folio 4 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches; 374 x 267 mm. Two inserted portraits one inserted illustration by Jouas and seventeen of twenty-six superb lithograph plates from the series Célébrités de la Caricature by Honoré Daumier and five hand colored duplicate plates. All plates mounted on stubs. Bound ca. 1900 in three-quarter black morocco over marbled boards smooth spine decoratively stamped and lettered horizontally in gilt 'Portraits en Pied Parlementaires - 1833' marbled endpapers. Some foxing throughout. "Célébrités de la Caricature Celebrities from La Caricature is a series of 26 lithographs which appeared in La Caricature and Le Charivari between April 26 1832 and November 9 1833. The first eight prints of the series show the portraits of well known politicians of the time. Underneath taking up almost as much space as the portrait itself an imaginary coat of arms is showing the characteristics of the person. It is in most cases in color although the portrait is in black and white. The last 18 prints show full size portraits without the coat of arms. Philipon had first asked Traviès and later Daumier to draw caricatures of Orléanist politicians while he supplied the text as well as the ideas for their respective coats of arms. On April 26 1832 Philipon explained the project which was to be highly successful to the readers of the Charivari. The publication however had to be delayed since Daumier decided to first mould clay models of each politician before drawing the lithograph. These "Célébrités de la Caricature" appeared under DR 43 45 46 48 and 51 starting with Monsieur de Lameth. In March 1833 the Charivari took over from the Caricature and published another three personalities with their coat of arms under DR 144 150 and 173. After that the series continued with portraits and full figure designs however without the allusive arms. This third section contained 18 full size portraits published in the Caricature during 1833. While the former prints were of a vignette like shape Daumier now showed the entire figure of the person concentrating on their overall appearance including the clothing. The sometimes "theatrical" costumes further enhanced the message the artist wanted to convey of the person's human qualities." Daumier Register. We have been unable to find any copies of Célébrités de la Caricature at auction over the past 100 years. OCLC & KVK locate no copies in libraries and institutions worldwide. While individual plates from Célébrités de la Caricature are well represented in museum collections BNF British Museum The Met assembled albums - particularly heterogeneous mixed-state compilations such as this - are virtually unknown. The ephemeral nature of satirical journals combined with censorship pressures and the lack of an official "edition" in book form makes survival in this state exceptional. The Plates: A. Inserted vignette portrait of the Young Daumier anonymous early 1830s. B. Inserted engraved portrait of Honoré Daumier in advanced age. Salon de 1881 engraving after the portrait by Auguste Boulard C. Inserted illustration A fine composition by Charles Jouas depicting a gathering of Daumier's most recognizable character types arranged around a sculptural pedestal. 1. Mr. Arlépaire. La Caricature 05/06/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 280. DR #55. 2. Mr. Baill. La Caricature 12/09/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 312. DR #69. 3. Mr. Baill. Color La Caricature 12/09/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 312. DR #69. 4. Mr. Barthe. La Caricature 18/07/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 294. DR #62. 5. Mr. Benjamin Dudessert. La Caricature 27/06/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 287. DR #59. 6. Mr. Cunin Grid. La Caricature 18/07/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 295. DR #64. 7. Mr. Cunin Grid. Color La Caricature 18/07/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 295. DR #64. 8. Mr. Étien. La Caricature 13/06/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 283. DR #57. 9. Mr. Étien. Color La Caricature 13/06/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 283. DR #57. 10. Mr. Fulchir. La Caricature 16/05/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 273. DR #53. 11. Mr. Guiz. La Caricature 13/12/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 340. DR #74. 12. Mr. Keratr. La Caricature 19/09/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 314. DR #70. 13. Mr. Joliv. La Caricature 27/12/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 346. DR #75. 14. Mr. Odieux. La Caricature 20/06/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 285. DR #58. 15. Mr. Pot de Naz. La Caricature 02/05/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 270. DR #52. 16. Mr. Prune. La Caricature 27/06/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 288. DR #60. 17. Mr. De Rign. La Caricature 21/11/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 333. DR #72. 18. Mr. Royer-Col. La Caricature 22/08/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 306. DR #68. 19. Mr. Royer-Col. Color La Caricature 22/08/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 306. DR #68. 20. Mr. Sébast. La Caricature 13/06/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 281. DR #56. 21. Mr. Sébast. Color La Caricature 13/06/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 281. DR #56. 22. Mr. Vieux-Niais. La Caricature 30/05/1833 - Célébrités de la Caricature - plate no. 278. DR #54. Célébrités de la Caricature Sobriquets Decoded: Political Meaning & Satirical Intent 1. Mr. Arlépaire - Jean-Marie Harlé père A pun on "harlequin" and "pair" mocking his theatrical opportunism and habit of shifting loyalties to remain politically relevant. 2. Mr. Baill. - Claude Baillot Named to suggest banal rigidity "bailler" / dullness Daumier presents him as the embodiment of complacent parliamentary inertia. 3. Mr. Baill. color - Claude Baillot The added color underscores his self-importance while changing nothing of his essential mediocrity. 4. Mr. Barthe - Félix Barthe Depicted as overstuffed and ponderous reflecting his reputation as a verbose legal mind weighed down by proceduralism. 5. Mr. Benjamin Dudessert - Benjamin Delessert A biting phonetic distortion suggesting softness and indulgence aimed at the banker-philanthropist's comfortable liberalism. 6. Mr. Cunin Grid. - Laurent Cunin-Gridaine The fractured name mirrors his contorted political positions caught between protectionist industry and Orléanist moderation. 7. Mr. Cunin Grid. color - Laurent Cunin-Gridaine Color heightens the comic tension between his ministerial authority and his awkward almost ungainly physical stance. 8. Mr. Étien. - Charles-Guillaume Étienne Reduced to a clipped name to mock his pretensions as a moralist playwright turned cautious regime supporter. 9. Mr. Étien. color - Charles-Guillaume Étienne The gentle coloring reinforces the irony of his self-image as a man of letters compromised by political conformity. 10. Mr. Fulchir. - Jean-Claude Fulchiron The name hints at "fulgurant" without the substance skewering his rhetorical flourish unsupported by action. 11. Mr. Guiz. - François Guizot Barely disguised the truncation signals notoriety rather than concealment: Guizot was already a caricature of doctrinaire power. 12. Mr. Keratr - Auguste-Hilarion comte de Kératry The harsh consonants echo his aristocratic stiffness and aloof detachment from popular concerns. 13. Mr. Joliv. - Adolphe Jollivet Ironically named to suggest cheerfulness while shown hunched and insinuating-satire aimed at political obsequiousness. 14. Mr. Odieux - Antoine Odier A direct moral judgment: "odious" to the opposition for his financial conservatism and cold technocratic demeanor. 15. Mr. Pot de Naz - Baron de Podenas A coarse pun implying empty bluster and nasal self-importance aimed at a minor figure inflated beyond his merits. 16. Mr. Prune - Clément Prunelle A visual joke on "prunelle" pupil of the eye portraying him as watchful tight-lipped and fundamentally small-minded. 17. Mr. De Rign - Comte de Rigny The clipped sobriquet suggests aristocratic rigidity reinforcing his image as a dignified but outdated naval minister. 18. Mr. Royer-Col. - Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard Rendered monumental and heavy the name truncation underscores his philosophical gravitas turned into intellectual immobility. 19. Mr. Royer-Col. color - Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard Color emphasizes bulk and presence reinforcing Daumier's critique of moral authority ossified into mass. 20. Mr. Sébast. - Horace-François comte Sebastiani Shown preening and theatrical the nickname highlights his reputation as a military showman turned political courtier. 21. Mr. Sébast. color - Horace-François comte Sebastiani The coloring sharpens the contrast between his flamboyant posture and the hollowness of his parliamentary stance. 22. Mr. Vieux-Niais - Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet One of Daumier's most savage labels-"old fool"-targeting Viennet's reactionary views and cultural conservatism. Daumier Register: DR-43 - DR-75 & DR-144 150 & 173. The missing plates are DR-43; 45; 46; 48; 51; 53; 63; 144; 150 & 173. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1833 unknown
Best.-Nr. 06026Paris: Chez Aubert 1840. Fishing and Proverbs as seen by Honoré Daumier DAUMIER Honoré. La Peche & Proverbes et Maximes. Paris: Chez Aubert 1840-41. Folio 13 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches; 333 x 258 mm. La Peche. Seven lithograph plates complete. Proverbes et Maximes. Twelve lithograph plates complete. Together nineteen fine lithograph plates. Modern quarter brown cloth over marbled boards spine lettered in gilt. Minimal marginal foxing to a couple of the plates. A fine example containing two of Daumier's rarest suites. La Peche Fishing is a series of seven lithographs which appeared between June 28 1840 and January 24 1841 in La Caricature. Proverbes et Maximes Proverbs and maxims is a series of twelve lithographs which appeared in Le Charivari between June 21 and October 20 1840. Daumier illustrates some well known proverbs in an original and literal way sometimes even too literally. The Plates: La Pêche 1. Un Pêcheur endurci. DR 815 28th June 1840. A hardened fisherman. 2. C'est presque toujours à la halle que les pêcheurs parisiens vont attraper leur poisson. DR 816 19th July 1840. It's usually at the market that Parisian fishermen go to catch their fish. 3. LE PÊCHEUR ACHARNÉ ou il ne faut pas disputer les gouts. DR 817 2nd August 1840. THE DESPERATE FISHERMAN or "There is no accounting for tastes". 4. Le Barbillon entraîne la ligne notre homme se penche le pied lui glisse et voilà le pêcheur qu'on repêche. DR 818 16th August 1840. The fish pulls the line. our man bends down his foot slips and there goes our fisherman. ready to be fished out. 5. Malheur au Pêcheur à la ligne qui se trouve sur celle d'un bateau à vapeur! DR 819 23rd August 1840. Woe to the angler who finds himself in the wave of a steamer! 6. LE DANGER DES PASSIONS ou Souvent l'on se trouve entrainé plus loin qu'on ne voudrait. DR 820 6th September 1840. THE DANGER OF PASSIONS or Often we find ourselves drawn further than we would like. 7. EN VOILÀ UN DE PLAISIR! OU La Passion de la Pêche poussée jusqu'au dernier degré. Réaumur! DR 821 24th January 1841. HERE IS ONE FOR PLEASURE! OR The passion for fishing carried to the last degree. of Réaumur. Proverbes et Maximes 1. Ventre affamé n'a pas d'oreilles. DR 803 21st June 1840. An empty stomach is deaf to music. 2. On n'est jamais bien servi que par soi-même. DR 804 28th June 1840. Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Served well is only he who is doing it himself 3. La patience est la vertu des ânes. DR 805 2nd July 1840. Patience is the virtue of asses. 4. Comme on fait son lit on se couche. DR 806 10th July 1840. As you make your bed so you must lie on it. 5. Bien venu qui apporte. DR 807 12th July 1840. Welcome is who brings something. 6. Un homme sans asile est comme un oiseau sans nid. DR 808 17th July 1840. A man without refuge is like a bird without a nest. 7. Les petits présens entretiennent l'amitié. DR 809 24th July 1840. Little presents maintain friendship. 8. A bon chat bon rat. DR 810 4th August 1840. Tit for tat. For a good cat a good rat 9. qui aime Bertrand aime son chien. DR 811 22nd July 1840. Whoever loves Bertrand loves his dog. 10. Il ne faut pas mettre le doigt entre le bois et l'écorce. DR 812 26th July 1840. Don't poke your nose into other people's business. You should not put your finger between the wood and the bark. 11. On reprend son bien où on le trouve. DR 813 6th August 1840. One recovers one's property where one finds it. 12. En voilà un de jobard! moi je suis de l'avis du proverbe: "Ce qui est bon à garder". DR 814 20th October 1840. Here is one mug!. I believe in the proverbe: What I have I won't release any more. Daumier register: 815-821; 803-814. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1840 unknown
Best.-Nr. 05939Paris: Aubert & Cie 1851. With Twenty Superb Lithographed Plates by Honoré Daumier DAUMIER Honoré illustrator. Les Gueux de Bourgeois. Études de leurs mœurs féroces et de leurs habitudes criminelles. Paris: Aubert & Cie n.d. ca. 1851. First edition. Folio 13 1/4 x 10 inches; 335 x 254 mm. Pictorial lithographed title by Belin and twenty lithographed plates all by Honoré Daumier comprising fifteen plates Nos. 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 16 18 21 30 and 31 from Tout ce qu'on Voudra two from Les Bons Bourgeois Nos. 79 and 81 two from Les Représentans Représentés Nos. 9 & 10 and one from Les Gens de Justice No. 34. Plate no 3 with small inner blank margin tear; plate no. 4 with neatly repaired two-inch tear just touching image. Otherwise the highly amusing lithographs are clean and fresh. Publisher's yellow glazed pictorial lithographed boards cover design by Belin. Minor wear to extremities. Otherwise a fine copy. "The house of Aubert was ingenious in marketing its products. Its lithographs.were published one by one in periodicals like Le charivari and together in suites by the same artist without letterpress. Still a third form of publication was in albums made up of lithographs by several artists with accompanying texts. These collections most commonly took the form of volumes with the generic title Paris comique which consisted of twenty colored lithographs accompanied by quite unrelated texts. Aubert remarked that the resulting hodgepodge had 'a plan that is easy to follow for it consists in not having any' and in fact this was indeed a frugal procedure for reusing old texts and already published plates. The interest of the various volumes of Paris comique resides entirely in the lithographs they happen to contain. It can be considerable however since Daumier and Gavarni are the predominant artists" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 164. The plates: 1. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.9. Un Pierrot déplumé. DR 1655 Whatever We Want. A plucked Pierrot. 2. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.12. Parisiens qui ne seront jamais placés sous la surveillance de la haute police. DR 1658 Whatever We Want. Parisians who will never be placed under surveillance of the secret police. 3. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.8. - Mais quand je vous dis que je ne peux pas remuer les pieds avec ces bottes là! . - Ça f'ra. monsieur. ça f'ra. ça f'ra!. DR 1654 Whatever We Want. - But I keep telling you that I cannot move my feet in these boots! - Don't worry it'll come it'll come. 4. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.13. Le plus farceur de la société. DR 1659 Whatever We Want. The comedian of the group. 5. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.4. - Ma femme est-elle à la maison. - Oui M'sieu.et vot' Cousin aussi. DR 1650 Whatever We Want. - Is my wife at home - Yes Sir. and so is your cousin. 6. Les Bons Bourgeois No. 81. - Vous ne prenez pas votre bouteille de bière ce soir. je vois ce que c'est vous sortez de diner en cabinet particulier. mauvais sujet!. DR 1557 The Good Bourgeois. You are not having your bottle of beer with us this evening. I can tell you are having a private dinner party today you scoundrel. 7. Les Gens de Justice No. 34. Encore perdu en Cour Royale . et il se lamente comme s'il ne lui restait pas encore la Cour de Cassation!. DR 1370 People of Justice. Lost again in the Royal Court. and he complains as if he couldn't still appeal in the Upper Appeals Court. 8. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.5. Une oasis au milieu de la plaine St-Denis. DR 1651 Whatever We Want. An oasis in the middle of the plain of St. Denis. 9. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.6. - Dire pourtant que mes dahlias continuent encore cette année à être du ponceau le plus vif . . . . malgré tous mes soins je ne pourrai donc jamais parvenir à leur donner la nuance Boue de Paris !. DR 1652 Whatever We Want. If one considers that my dahlias are still blooming in flaming red this year. I am afraid that with all my endeavors I will never succeed in cultivating them in a "Parisian Dirt" shade. 10. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.7. Ayant fait partie des Muscadins sous le Directoire. DR 1653 Whatever We Want. Former Dandies from the time of the Directory. 11. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.11. - Oui c'est bien feue ma femme ! .Seulement je trouve que vous l'avez trop flattée!. DR 1657 Whatever We Want. Yes it is my deceased wife. only I find that you have flattered her too much! 12. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.15. - Tiens v'la peut-être une pratique . je vais me mettre sur son passage!. DR 1661 Whatever We Want. Well this looks like a customer. I am going to put myself in his way! 13. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.10. Deux heures du matin sortie du théatre historique. DR 1656 Whatever We Want. Two in the morning exit of the Historic Theatre. 14. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.16. Inconvénient d'un parapluie à ressorts trop compliqués. DR 1662 Whatever We Want. The disadvantage of having an umbrella with a complicated spring system. 15. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.21. Un mari brûlé du feu de la jalousie. DR 1667 Whatever We Want. A husband burning with jealousy. 16. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.31. - Nous avons donc volé le ballon de Mr. Green. DR 1677 Whatever We Want. So we have stolen the balloon of Mr. Green 17. Les Représentans Représentés No.9 Felix Pyat. Convaincu par le discours prononcé par Félix Pyat en faveur du droit au travail Daumier s'est immédiatement arrogé le droit de travailler aux dépens de l'orateur montagnard. Felix Pyat. Convinced by the speech delivered by Felix Pyat in favor of the right to work Daumier immediately arrogated to himself the right to work at the expense of the mountain speaker. DR 1807 18. Les Représentans Représentés No.10 Larochejacquelein. Costume dont s'était paré ce citoyen le jour où il s'est rendu à l'Assemblée Nationale pour déposer son mémorable bulletin de vote dans lequel il demandait pour Président de la République française!. Abd-el-Kader. The costume that this citizen had adorned himself with on the day he went to the National Assembly to deposit his memorable ballot paper in which he asked for President of the French Republic!. Abd-el-Kader. DR 1808 19. Les Bons Bourgeois No. 79. Doux loisirs d'un quincailler retiré du commerce des hommes et des chenets. DR 1555 The Good Bourgeois. Sweet pastime of a retired ironmonger far away from the commerce of man and the fire-dog. 20. Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra No.30. - Ah! ma chère quand on a un chien on ne devrait jamais avoir de mari!. pas plus tard qu'hier le mien a encore eu la chose de refuser une aile de poulet à Mimire il n'a voulu lui donner qu'une cuisse!. - Faut-y qu'ils y aient des hommes qui soyent féroces!. DR 1676 Whatever We Want. - Oh my dear when you have a dog you should not have a husband. Only yesterday mine refused to let Mimine have a chicken wing. He only gave him a thigh. - How cruel men can be! Paris: Aubert & Cie, 1851 unknown
Best.-Nr. 04977Paris: Aux Bureaux du Charivari 1871. Thirty-Nine Wonderfully Satiric Images by Daumier & Cham of the Siege of Paris by the Prussian army in the Winter of 1870-1871 CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé. DAUMIER Honoré. Album du Siége Par Cham et Daumier. Recueil de Caricatures publiées pendant Le Siege dans Le Charivari. Paris: Aux Bureaux du Charivari 1871. First edition. Large quarto 12 x 9 5/8 inches; 305 x 244 mm. Pictorial lithograph title-page Cham and thirty-nine fine lithograph plates ten of which are by Honoré Daumier and the rest by Cham. Publisher's red pebbled cloth over boards front cover lettered in gilt marbled endpapers. Thirty-nine wonderfully satiric images of the siege of Paris by the Prussian army in the winter of 1870-1871 originally published in Le Charivari and reprinted as an album in 1871 with a new image used for the title page. OCLC locates just sixteen copies in libraries and institutions worldwide nine in the USA four in the Netherlands two in Germany and one in Australia ten of these appear to be bound without the pictorial title. It would seem that this volume was only issued with uncolored plates. "For many of Daumier's admirers his lithographs of 1870-1871 represent the peak of his achievement. They are in his last style massive stripped down direct which speaks as nothing else could for this tragic period in France's history. The Siege of Paris - that took place from 19th September 1870 to 28th January 1871 and the consequent capture of the city by Prussian force - culminated in France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of both the German Empire and the Paris Commune - the radical socialist anti-religious and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from 18th March to 28th May 1871. The Franco-Prussian War had led to the capture of Emperor Napoleon III in September 1870 the collapse of the Second French Empire and the beginning of the Third Republic. The Plates: 1. Pictorial title-page Cham 2. Modes Parisiennes en prévision du bombardment Cham 112 3. Le bombardment Cham 5 4. La valeur Prussienne n'attendant pas le nombre des années Cham 8 5. Ceci a tué cela Daumier 3845 6. Plus de Gaz Cham 127 7. Préparant les éntrennes pour son peuple Cham 8. Pour ne pas être bléssé je n'ai qu'a mettre ce plastron Oui monsieur en ayant soin bien entendu de ne pas sortir de chez vous Cham 107 9. Un paysage en 1870 Daumier 3828 10. Laissez appuyer moâ sur le bras à vôs! Fallait pas me laisser amputer Cham 129 11. T'allais jamais à l'Église autrefois Pour le pain bénit on ne fait pas la queue Cham 18 12. Tu t'es mis un faux ventre! Pour faire des sorties pour montrer à l'ennemi que nous avons beaucoup de vivres Cham 106 13. Les animaux du jardin des plantes faisant queue comme tout le monde pour avoir leur viande Cham 110 14. Square Napoléon Daumier 3824 15. Je me suis mis dans les volontaires! Animal! Tu n'as pas 35 ans! On va dire que nous ne sommes pas mariés! Cham 121 16. Ce pauvre Henri IV voyant emmener son cheval chez le boucher Cham 130 17. Épouvantée de l'héritage Daumier 3838 18. Madame Putois j/aurais tout de même jamais cru que vous tueriez votre chien pour nous en faire manger - Il a bien fallu. il était enrage! Cham 17 19. Maintenant j'adore les gens grêlés ils me rappellent le gruyere! Cham 120 20. Plus de viande! Allons donc! Cham 123 21. Rationnement du pain - un monsieur allant diner en ville Cham 16 22. Les Nouveaux Gardiens de Paris Cham 111 23. Six heures et demie - les chevaux de Madame la Marquise sont sur la table Cham 104 24. Le danger de manger de la souris est qu'ensuite votre chat ne coure après Cham 119 25. On aurait pu profiter de passage du ballon-poste pour surprendre l'ennemi Cham 96 26. L'empire c'est la paix Daumier 3814 27. Ils auront beau emporter les pendules ils n'empêcheront pas l'heure de la vengeance de sonner Cham 138 28. Nous ne nous serions jamais doutés tout de même que nous naviguerions un jour sur ce vaisseau-là Daumier 3819 29. Le nouveau char de la victoire Daumier 3849 30. Le revers de la médaille de Sainte-Hélène Cham 108 31. Soldats! Il fait très froid; mais si l'on est content de vous on donnera un paletot fourré. au maréchal Fritz Cham 122 32. La queue pour la viande de rats Cham 124 33. Pauvre France!. le tronc est foudroyé mais les raciness tiennent bon! Daumier 3843 34. Tant bis! Il aurait brobablement ennuyé blu tard les enfants de Fritz Cham 6 35. J'ai besoin de quitter Paris - Pour rejoinder votre femme - Au contraire; voila cinq mois qu'elle ne m'a pas quitté Cham 27 36. L'unité allemande Daumier 3831 37. Les Prussiens m'ont donné un cigare! - C'est bien le moins alors qu'un Francais te donne aussi quelque chose Cham 28 38. Aveugle! C'est triste mais c'est encore de la chance dans ce moment-ci! Cham 22 39. Moi je suis ravitaillé!. le rests m'est égal Daumier 3851 40. Après le Siége Cham 113 "Particularly to be noted are his bitter reflections on the legend which Charlet Bellangé Raffet and their imitators had helped to create. The desolate battleground of "The empire means peace" no. 26 offers an ironic commentary on an epigram uttered by Napoleon III in 1852. His "Square Napoleon" no. 14 displays the gravestones of those for whose death the Emperor has been responsible beginning with the Boulevard Monmartre in the winter of 1851 and ending with Sedan in 1870. In Cham's "The reverse of the Saint Helena medal" no. 30 indeed the country's disaster is attributed specifically to Napoleon Bonaparte as well as to Napoleon III. Daumier's first plate for 1871 showing France "Appalled by her heritage" no. 17 is bleak indeed but a later design offers a gleam of hope: "Poor France!. The trunk blasted but the roots hold fast" no. 33. It should be mentioned that Cham's contributions to this album though trivial in comparison with Daumier's monumental compositions are by no means negligible. He provides the detail that Daumier omitted. The horrors of the bombardment are recorded in his plates but so too is the black humor of Parisian life during the siege. For example he shows the population pursuing food in any form - horses cats rats even a large woman regarded with speculation by an impudent boy: "No more meat! - Let's go then!" no. 20. The plates included in Album du siège were transferred to zinc for engraving by Gillot's process rather than printed directly from Daumier's lithographic stones." Gordon N. Ray. The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914 p. 245. Paris: Aux Bureaux du Charivari, 1871 unknown books