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Ives, Colta et al: Daumier Drawings. Exhibition: New York, Metropolitan Museum, 1993. 280pp with 43 colour and 236 monochromeillustrations. Cloth. 28x27.9cms. Collection of Daumier's rarer and relatively little known drawings and watercolours produced for himself and a select number of people. Catalogue divided into six main sections: heads and figures; traditional figural compositions; scenes of contemporary life; portrayal of lawyers; depiction of street performers; Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. With chronology, selected bibliography, notes, index.. Collection of Daumier's rarer and relatively little known drawings and watercolours produced for himself and a select number of people. Catalogue divided into six main sections: heads and figures; traditional figural compositions; scenes of contemporary life; portrayal of lawyers; depiction of street performers; Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. With chronology, selected bibliography, notes, index.. Text in English
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full gray cloth boards. Edge wear and tears to dust jacket. 9 3/4"w x 12 1/2"h. 96 pages.
Introduction by Alan Wilkinson. Catalogue to accompany the exhibition 5 September - 19 October 1984.
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879): the master of caricature. Numerous illustrations. Ex libris plate on top corner of front pastedown. Browning to covers and text page
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Litografia della serie di caricature disegnate da Honoré Daumier (Marseille, 1808 - Valmondois, l879), il celebre pittore, litografo, disegnatore, scultore, per il noto quotidiano politico-satirico parigino Le Charivari (la litografia appartiene alla serie intitolata Les Gens de Justice). 1. Perdu, monsieur... perdu sur tous les points... et vous me disiez encore ce matin que ma cause était excellente! - Parbleu... je suis encore tout prèt à le soutenir si vous voulez en appeler... mais je vous préviens qu'en Cour royale je ne le soutiens pas à moins de cent écus! Anno 1845. Cm. 24 x 18. Il cliente deluso ascolta a bocca aperta ciò che gli annuncia il suo avvocato. Délteil, "Oeuvre litographié de H. Daumier, n. 1848.
I due personaggi che agiscono nella scena sono i protagonisti ricorrenti in tutta questa serie di caricature di Daumier, ispirata ai raggiri e alle trappole tese da disinvolti pseudo-finanzieri agli ingenui loro vittime. Mentre Robert Macaire sta in ascolto dietro una tenda violacea, a sinistra, il suo compare Bertand illustra con pittoreschi termini culinari il fallimento di un affare andato a male ai malcapitati azionisti radunati ad ascoltarlo. Hazard et Delteil, L'oeuvre lith. de H. Daumier, n. 1041.
Litografie appartenenti alla serie intitolata "Ces bons autrichiens", che riunisce 30 caricature di H. Daumier (1808-1879) riferite alla campagna d'Italia del 1859, sostenuta a fianco dell'armata piemontese estratte da vari numeri del "Charivari". 1. Tu viens m'annoncer la victoire? Un generale austriaco tende speranzoso le braccia ad un uffuciale che corre verso di lui, piuttosto con l'aria di fuggire il nemico che non per portare la notizia della vittoria! Hazard & Delteil, n. 3001: III/3. 2. Tiens, tu te met en autrichien, toi pour faire la cuisine... Uno zuavo si rivolge scherzosamente ad un camerata che indossa una giubba bianca austriaca con livrea da cuoco. Hazard & Delteil, n. 3009: III/3. Nota Bene: Il prezzo deve intendersi per ciascuna (each) litografia.
Litografia misure: mm 352 x 242 Pittore, scultore e caricaturista francese. Nel 1816 si trasferisce con la sua famiglia a Parigi dove, per aiutare il padre poeta-restauratore e vetraio, Honoré si impiega prima come fattorino e successivamente presso una libreria. Tuttavia la sua passione per il disegno e la pittura prende il sopravvento e grazie ad un amico del padre nel 1823 entra all'Académie Suisse. Nel 1830 prende parte alla Rivoluzione che sconfisse la monarchia di Carlo X e qualche anno più tardi, tra il 1832 e il 1835, su richiesta del noto caricaturista Charles Philipon (1800-1862), comincia ad eseguire caricature per il giornale La Caricature e per il quotidiano Le Charivari. Philipon gli commissiona poi una serie di busti-caricatura di uomini politici e magistrati in terra cruda policroma; ne realizzerà una quarantina e li utilizzerà come modelli per le sue litografie. La forza politica di queste caricature irriverenti lo fecero condannare a sei mesi di prigione, tale esperienza fece sì che Daumier preferì mutare i soggetti ritratti passando alla satira di costume. La sua attività di pittore ebbe inizio nel 1848 con l'opera dal titolo La Repubblica nutre e istruisce i suoi figli. Questa litografia è tratta dal quotidiano francese Le Chiarivari. Al verso del foglio le notizie del giorno. La parola Chiavari può essere fatta risalire al XVII secolo, riferendola all'artista italiano Agostino Carracci il quale disegnò i cosiddetti “ritratti caricati”, ritratti e figure assurde; un'altra spiegazione per tale parola può essere trovata nel greco "Karebaria", sinonimo di un mal di testa basato sulla musica disarmonica ad alto volume di strumenti, non necessariamente musicali, come padelle, pentole ecc. Il quotidiano venne pubblicato dal 1832 fino al 1926, poi divenne settimanale fino al 1937. Il contributo di Daumier al successo di Le Chiavari è stato immenso. La litografia è la numero 3, numero indicato in alto a destra, della serie La Comedie Humaine: una serie composta da 7 litografie, apparse tra gennaio e aprile 1843 (5) e nel dicembre 1853 (2). Il titolo Comédie Humaine deriva da un'idea di Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) che lo utilizzò nel 1841 per una serie di 89 ritratti di tipi parigini, evidenziandone tutte le caratteristiche umane. La serie di Daumier ne è il degno completamento visivo. Daumier doveva conoscere molto bene il sistema giudiziario francese e sicuramente questa tavola anticipa gli atteggiamenti gesticolanti che caratterizzano le tavole della serie Gens de Justice (42 tavole apparse nel 1848). Vediamo rappresentato un avvocato avvolto nella sua toga nel momento più alto del suo discorso; braccia alzate, sguardo fisso, fronte corrugata e occhi fissi verso un bastone appoggiato ad una sedia alla cui sommità troviamo un cilindro e una sciarpa che cade a terra. Impressione eccellente, ottimo stato di conservazione. Foglio intonso. Stato II/III con le scritte a piè di pagina. In basso a sinistra "Pannier Editeur R. du Croissant.16." e a destra "Imp. d'Aubert & Cie." Bibliografia: Deltail 1007.
réf. 04953Paris: Léopold Pannier et Cie. 1841. An Exceptionally Rare Daumier Album Seven Series Complete Containing Fifty Humorous Lithographs DAUMIER Honoré illustrator. Variétés Drolatiques. Vulgarités. - Les Musiciens de Paris. - Proverbes de famille. - Proverbes et Maximes. - La Peche. - La Journée du Celibataire. - Les Saltimbanques. 50 Planches. Paris: Léopold Pannier et Cie. 1841. Vulgarités. 10 plates DR 905-914 Les Musiciens de Paris. 6 plates DR 919-924 Proverbes de famille. 2 plates DR 797-798 Proverbes et Maximes. 12 plates DR 803-814 La Peche. 7 plates DR 815-821 La Journée du Celibataire. 12 plates DR 607-618 Les Saltimbanques. 1 plate DR 620 Total 50 plates complete. "Pannier published a separate album with the title "Variétés Drolatiques" par Daumier Paris 1 vol. in-4° demi chagr. It contains the following complete seriessur blanc bringing the total of prints to 50:Vulgarités Musiciens de Paris Proverbes de Famille Proverbes et Maximes La Pêche Journée du Célibataire und Les Saltimbanques." This album can be considered rare." Daumier Register. OCLC locates just three of the plates from Proverbes Maximes. Nos. 6 9 and 11 all at Washington University OR USA. We located just one copy at auction - sold between October 1898 and July 1899!!! The only plate that appears in the Armand Hammer Daumier collection is the second plate of La Peche p.67 Bound together with: Exceedingly Rare Daumier Histoire Ancienne Complete with Fifty Superb Lithographs DAUMIER Honoré. illustrator. PHILIPON Charles. Histoire Ancienne. Paris: Chez Aubert 1841-1843. Folio 13 3/16 x 10 inches; 335 x 254 mm. Fifty superb lithograph plates. Some intermittent mainly marginal foxing. Together 100 fine lithograph plates containing two of Daumier's rarest suites both complete. Contemporary quarter dark brown morocco over marbled boards spine with four raised bands ruled in blind and lettered in gilt marbled end-papers. A near fine and complete example of two of Honoré Daumier's finest and rarest works. There is only one copy of Histoire Ancienne located in libraries and institutions worldwide The Bibliotheque Nationale de France. "This series of 50 lithos on characters in ancient history and mythology appeared between 1841 and 1843. Daumier's irreverent satirizing of the sacred characters in Greek and Roman mythology contributed to the Romantic attack upon the Classical school in the continuing battle waged in the theater literature and the arts. Philipon's contrived poems as captions to the series contain many veiled allusions to Louis-Philippe and individuals in his reign." Plate no. 22. "Le Baptême D'Achille." The baptism of Achilles; As one tempers a weapon of war Thetis wishing to make a hero of her brat dipped him in the Styx as soon as he saw the light which proves that a bath is good for all purposes. - On the Influence of Baths poem by Mr. Vigier. Deltail # 946. Plate no. 46. "La Mère des Gracques." The mother of the Gracchi: One day when a gay lady was shamelessly praising her jewels which were worth a few cents this Roman mother showing her two young sons the hope of the country said "Behold my only jewels!" - Plutarch. Deltail # 970. This well-known story provided Daumier the chance to portray two typical Frenchwomen with typical unruly children. Deltail # 970. Plate no. 47. "Pygmalion." O triumph of the arts! What was your amazement great sculptor when you saw your marble come to life and in a chaste and gentle manner slowly bow down to ask you for a pinch of snuff. - Count Siméon. Deltail # 971. Charles F. Ramus editor. Daumier 120 Great Lithographs Histoire Ancienne is a series consisting of 50 numbered lithographs DR. 925-974 which appeared in the Charivari between December 1841 and January 1843. Between December 1841 and January 1843 Honoré Daumier in the Charivari published a series devoted to ancient history: fifty plates to antique themes seventeen of which illustrating the Iliad the Odyssey and Telemachus of Fenelon. "Alone without scientific mission Daumier traveled Greece drawing where a beautiful feeling attached him crying where a touching tradition was waiting. Drawing day and night he finally found the original Greek sense." says the satirical newspaper. The cartoonist wants to infuse "life movement privacy anything that lacked" the Greek hero petrified by ancient sculpture. Some illustrations comic relief reminiscent of Greek tombstones Daumier modernized by the effects of perspective or shortcuts. For each board a comment from a few to a "translation" of Homer crazy "light poetry" underline the ironic look worn by Daumier on antiquity. "A quarrel between painters of the classic and romantic schools had fully flared up. Delacroix asked the "loaded" question: "Qui me délivrera des Grecs et des Romains" Who redeems us from the Greeks and Romans. Daumier succeeded to answer it his own way by showing historic personalities such as Hercules Pygmalion or Agamemnon in absurd situations. It was his method to put history into perspective. In December 1841 the Charivari announced the arrival of this series as follows: "We have sent Monsieur Daumier to Greece alone and without any scientific support. He worked day and night to reveal the Greek soul of the past. Daumier brings antiquity back to us". The lithographs of the series "Histoire Ancienne" were published between 1841 and 1843. Daumier was far ahead of his time when he started as one of the first to show how relative the importance of Greek and Roman Mythology can be in a modern world. The admirers of ancient history especially in Arts however were not dissipated easily. It would take another 15 years until Baudelaire in literature and Offenbach in music de-mystified the "old Greeks" and removed the centuries old dust from them." The Daumier Registry Deltail. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre lithographées de Honoré Daumier 925-974; Beraldi Les Graveurs du XIX siècle V p. 126; Ramus p. 126. Paris: Léopold Pannier et Cie., 1841 unknown books
1969réf. UHARHON00TMBounty 1969. Very Good. Daumier Honore. Honore Daumier: Selected Works. Harris Bruce; Harris editor Seena; Getlein appreciation Frank; Getlein appreciation Dorothy. New York: Bounty 1969. 209pp. Illustrated. 4to. Red cloth. Book condition: Very good with light bumping and rubbing. A few tiny spots and light soiling on top edge. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with chipped and slightly curled edges and rubbing. Has yellowing light soiling and short tears. Now in protective plastic cover. Bounty hardcover books
1962réf. 142484Williamstown MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute 1962. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran June 1962. Exhibit Nineteen. Includes 22 black and white illustrations. A very good copy in wrappers that are very lightly soiled. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute unknown books
1979réf. 142482Washington D.C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art 1979. First edition. Softcover. 16 pages. Supplement catalog for a show that ran September 21 through December 18 1979. Includes 12 black and white illustrations. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with some wear. The Corcoran Gallery of Art unknown books
1958réf. 142086Boston MA: Museum of Fine Arts 1958. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show prepared and with an introduction by Peter A. Wick. Includes numerous black and white illustrations. An ex-library copy with a small institutional stamp and withdrawn stamp over on the title page. Otherwise a clean copy free of marks. Museum of Fine Arts unknown books
1969réf. 139209Zurich: August Laube & Sohn 1969. First edition. Oblong softcover. 72 pages. Includes numerous small black and white illustrations. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with a sticker shadow to the front cover. August Laube & Sohn unknown books
1979réf. 129212Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art 1979. First edition. Softcover. An exhibition catalog for a show at the National Gallery. Includes 100 illustrations. An about very good fine copy in wrappers with some minor foxing throughout. A good reference copy. National Gallery of Art unknown books
1999réf. 44359Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada 1999. First Edition. Quarto 31cm x 24.5cm. Yellow paper boards hardcover with titling in blue-gray on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 600pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight shelf wear to bottom corner tips; slight soiling to bottom textblock corner else clean and tight. Very Good dustwrapper; a 2cm tear to bottom corner back panel flap; chipping to upper spine panel else clean and sound. This volume exploring the work and life of French printmaker caricaturist and painter Honoré-Victorin Daumier was published in conjunction with the exhibition "Daumier" organized by the NAtional Gallery of Canada Ottawa; the Réunion des Musées Nationaux and the Musée d'Orsay Paris; and The Phillips Collection Washington DC in 1999-2000. Hundreds of reproductions in b&w and color. National Gallery of Canada unknown books
1992réf. 37612New York: Metropolian Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams 1992. First Edition. Quarto 28.5cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xii268pp.; illus. Jacket a bit shelf worn a few tiny soil spots to upper panel old price stickers to upper flap and pastedown else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Metropolian Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams unknown books
1999réf. 37610Paris: Vilo Publishing 1999. First English Language Edition. Folio 31cm.; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 189pp.; illus. throughout. Upper jacket panel a bit soiled light shelf wear; Fine in Very Good or better jacket. Vilo Publishing unknown books
1969réf. 34717Cambridge: Fogg Art Musuem Harvard University 1969. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Quarto 27.75cm.; publisher's black pictorial card wrappers; xiii1265pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some light shelf wear general minor cockling from exposure to damp else Very Good and sound. Warmly inscribed and signed on title page at a later date 1999 by Wasserman. Fogg Art Musuem, Harvard University unknown books
1979réf. 107568Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art 1979. First edition. Softcover. An exhibition catalog for a show at the National Gallery. Includes 100 illustrations. A clean very near fine copy in wrappers. National Gallery of Art unknown books
réf. 35507Daumier Honore. Married Life. New York: Pantheon Books n.d. 24 wide-margined 9-3/4" x 14-1/4" black-and-white plates and 8-page booklet housed in gilt-stamped portfolio with cloth boards. Wear to extremities of portfolio reinforcement tape to spine. Ex-library. Typewritten title to spine card pocket to rear pastedown of portfolio small institution stamps to margins of plates. $20. unknown books
réf. 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
réf. 04829Paris: Chez Aubert 1839. With 50 Hand-Colored Lithographs including Nine by Honoré Daumier and Fifteen by Gavarni DAUMIER Honoré Gavarni and others illustrators. ALHOY Maurice Louis Huart and Charles Philipon editors. Le Musée pour rire. Dessins par tous les caricaturistes de Paris; Texte par MM. Maurice Alhoy Louis Huart et Ch. Philipon. Paris: Chez Aubert Editeur des Cent-et-Un Robert-Macaire 1839 Volume II only of 3. First edition. Quarto 10 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches; 265 x 207 mm. i-ii half-title verso blank iii-iv title verso blank v-vi Table 200 pp. With 50 numbered 51-100 hand-colored lithographs heightened with gum arabic by Honoré Daumier nine Gavarni fifteen Frédéric Bouchot seventeen Benjamin i.e. Benjamin Roubaud four Bourdet three Grandville one and Edme-Jean Pigal one. Heavy spotting in places but mainly to text leaves. Plates generally clean. Publisher's silk patterned paper over boards covers decoratively stamped in gilt smooth spine decoratively stamped and titled in gilt. Rebacked with the original spine laid down. With the engraved bookplate of author and collector Jaques Robiquet on front paste-down. A reasonably priced album containing fine hand-colored lithographs of Bouchot Daumier & Gavarni etc. etc. "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. Le musée pour rire represents a more considerable effort on the part of Aubert. To accompany 150 lithographs including forty-five by Daumier among them twenty-seven from Croquis d'expressions and eight from La galerie physionomique and forty-two by Gavarni new commentaries were commissioned on each plate all except two by Alhoy and Huart. Daumier's lithographs were trimmed slightly and their captions were relettered. The designs of the other artists were provided with decorative frames. The whole was then published in three handsome volumes and in copies with expert contemporary coloring like this one Le musée pour rire is among the freshest and most attractive of romantic illustrated books" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book. Le Musée pour Rire "contained 150 lithographs by Daumier Gavarni Bouchot Traviès etc. These are re-impressions some of them in mirror image which had previously already been used for publication in Le Charivari. Most prints of the series ‘Croquis d'expressions' are contained in the book. The name of the series is missing and the texts were printed in a different type than in the original Charivari version. We do not consider these prints original lithographies but rather prints ‘after Daumier'". Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 164. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1839 unknown books
