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Best.-Nr. 05541Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. 1850. Jokes in Poor Taste CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé. Turlupinades Contrariétés et Autres Amusemens Négatifs Jokes in Poor Taste Par Cham. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. ca. 1850. First edition. Folio 13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 337 x 251 mm. Hand-colored lithographed title and fifteen full-page hand-colored lithographed plates with captions. Advertisement leaf at end Maison de Commission. Des Modes Parisiennes. Publisher's pictorial glazed green boards. Original glassine wrapper. A superb example. OCLC locates just four copies worldwide: Morgan Library & Museum; New York Public Library; Getty Institute; University of Illinois. CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé 1818-1879. French caricaturist and lithographer published his first book Monsieur Lajeunesse in 1839 and from 1843 began to be regularly published in illustrated magazines such as Le Charivari which in 1835 focused primarily on publishing satires of everyday life thereafter becoming one of the most popular of French caricaturists through entertaining storybooks such as this work which satirized 'jokes in poor taste.' Several artists "followed in the wake of Daumier and Gavarni. Among the most attractive of the former is Amédéé de Noé "known as Cham that is Ham the son of Noah.it was said that he had 'an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège 173 in which Daumier was his collaborator are typical of his work" Ray pp. 155-156. Cham had contacts with English artists many of whom had trained on the Continent most in company with English artist and follower of the pioneering German lithographer Alois Senefelder. The Plates: 1. Tout ça c'est bel et bon! It's all well and good! 2. L'éducation es tune bonne chose! Education is a good thing! 3. Hardi! Conscrit la patrie a les yeux sur toi!. Daring! Conscript the fatherland has its eyes on you!. 4. Je veux que mon fils ait un prix! I want my son to have a prize! 5. Mes papiers.mes papiers! My papers.my papers! 6. Tiens tiens elle était pressée c'tte lettre Well well she was in a hurry that letter 7. De de quoi.de de quoi!. From what.from what!. 8. Malheureux! Tu me feras blancher avant l'âge. Unfortunate! You will make me white before my age. 9. Enfin j'en tiens un!. Finally I got one!. 10. Non vous ne vous trompez pas! No you are not mistaken! 11. Je risqué tout tant pis pour moi! I risked everything too bad for me! 12. Ah! Vous êtes ambitieux! Ah! You are ambitious! 13. Qué bonheur m'ssieu! What happiness sir! 14. Cré coquin mes chemises neuves. Naughty creation my new shirts. 15. Y sont drôles les maitres! The masters are funny there! Bobins IV 1349. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1850 unknown
Best.-Nr. 06206Paris: Chez Aubert Éditeur du Musée Philipon. 1842. Twenty Superb Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Daumier Gavarni Platier Bouchot & Plattel DAUMIER Honoré & others. Paris Comique Revue Amusante Des Caractères Moeurs Modes Folies Ridicules Excentricités Niaiseries Bêtises Sottises Voleries et Infamies Parisiennes. Text non politique Par MM. L. Huart Michelant Ch. Philipon et autres Rédacteurs du Charivari et de la Caricature: Dessins Comiques par MM. Bouchot Cham de N. Daumier Gavarni Grandville et autrés artistes du Musée Philipon. Paris: Chez Aubert Éditeur. 1844. Folio 13 3/16 x 10 inches; 335 x 254 mm. iv 152 pp. Twenty magnificent hand colored lithographs all heightened with gum arabic. Some light foxing which is mainly confined to the blank borders of the plates. The plates are by: Jules Platier 6; Honoré Daumier 5; Paul Gavarni 4; Frédéric Bouchot 4 & Henri Daniel Plattel 1. Publisher's quarter green calf over pictorial green paper boards smooth spine decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Extremities a little rubbed otherwise near fine. An excellent example with eleven of the wonderful hand colored lithographs by Honoré Daumier and Paul Gavarni. "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. DAUMIER. Chasse et Pêche no. 8. Je l'ai pris pour un lièvre. 2. DAUMIER. Monomanes no. 7. Le Malde Imaginaire. 3. GAVARNI. Les Plaisirs Champêtres no. 2. Le Charge D'Affaires. 4. BOUCHOT. L'École des Voyageurs no. 12. La Neige. 5. DAUMIER. Croquis D'Expressions no. 44. Charmant jeune trainant tous les coeurs après soi Cel qu'on depeint nos Dieux ou tel que je vous vois! Phedre. 6. GAVARNI. Les Rêves no. 2. Monsieur Joseph rêve qu'il est Cure et dit la Messe à St. Thomas d'Aquin. 7. DAUMIER. Croquis D'Expressions no. 2. 8. PLATIER. Profils Contemporains no. 15. Le Restaurateur. 9. BOUCHOT. Ce Que Parler Veut Dire no. 11. 10. GAVARNI. Transacions no. 7. Qu'est ce que tu me bailleras b'en si j' te rends ton fagot 11. BOUCHOT. Ce Que Parler Veut Dire no. 16. 12. BOUCHOT. Ce Que Parler Veut Dire no. 5. 13. PLATIER. Actualites no. 22. 14. PLATIER. Actualites no. 27. 15. PLATIER. Croquis D'Expressions no. 96. 16. GAVARNI. Actualités no. 1. 17. PLATIER. Croquis D'Expressions no. 89. 18. DAUMIER. Croquis D'Expressions no. 45. 19. PLATTEL. Actualités no. 1. 20. PLATIER. Les Mauvais Payeurs no. 4. Paris: Chez Aubert, Éditeur du Musée Philipon..., 1842 unknown
Best.-Nr. 05937Paris: Arnauld de Vresse & Martinet 1864. Cham's Most Ambitious Sustained Effort. Actualités - 116 Hand Colored Lithographs CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé. Actualités. A fine collection of one hundred and sixteen hand colored lithograph plates all heightened with gum arabic. Paris: Arnauld de Vresse & Martinet 1864-1870. A superb collection of one hundred and sixteen 116 original hand-colored lithographs each heightened with gum arabic satirizing the political social and cultural life of France during the reign of Napoleon III and the dawn of the Third Republic. Folio 13 x 9/78 inches; 330 x 250 mm. printed on fine wove paper. Preserved loose as issued without text. Chemised in a half black morocco over red cloth clamshell case spine with five raised bands decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Cham - the indefatigable caricaturist Amédée de Noé - produced over 40000 drawings in his career but the Actualités series issued in parts throughout the 1860s and early 1870s remains his most ambitious sustained effort. These plates rarely encountered in contemporary hand-colored state brilliantly combine political allegory fashion satire social comedy and fantastical invention. The application of gum arabic provides added brilliance and depth to surfaces such as glassware metallic armor feathers silks and human expressions. Comparable to Daumier in invention but with a lighter more whimsical tone Cham's satires range from the boulevards of Paris to the battlefields of Europe lampooning politicians dandies soldiers and housewives alike. Large groups of Actualités in colored form are of great rarity. A Complete Annotated Inventory of Plates 1-116 is available upon request - each plate is listed with original French caption English translation and a brief thematic note. Annotated Inventory - Cham Actualités Plate 1. Les actualités. - Enfin les chaleurs commencent. - The news. - At last the heat begins. Note: Comic scene of Parisians suffering under the summer sun; satire on the weather obsessions of city life. Plate 2. Un progrès de la civilisation. - L'ombrelle pour chiens. - A progress of civilization. - The parasol for dogs. Note: Satire on bourgeois excesses showing pampered pets being shaded like aristocrats. Plate 3. Politique étrangère. - La France et le Mexique. - Foreign policy. - France and Mexico. Note: Commentary on Napoleon III's disastrous Mexican campaign; allegorical figures of France and Mexico. Plate 4. Les élégances de Paris. - Nouveau chapeau pour dames. - Parisian elegance. - New ladies' hat. Note: Caricature of extravagant women's fashion lampooning oversized hats and crinolines. Plate 5. Actualité militaire. - Toujours prêts! - Military news. - Always ready! Note: Mocking French soldiers' constant drills; humor in exaggerated weaponry and stiff poses. Plate 6. Les plaisirs d'hiver. - Le patinage à la mode. - Winter pleasures. - Skating in fashion. Note: Depicts the Parisian craze for ice-skating; shows fashionable couples more concerned with appearance than skill. Plate 7. Les omnibus parisiens. - Quelle bousculade! - Paris omnibuses. - What a crush! Note: Urban satire of overcrowded public transport; crinolines and top hats colliding inside a carriage. Plate 8. La guerre de 1866. - La Prusse et l'Autriche se disputant l'Italie. - The war of 1866. - Prussia and Austria fighting over Italy. Note: Political cartoon about the Austro-Prussian war; Italy personified as a prize being tugged in opposite directions. Plate 9. Photographie instantanée. - Le portrait en mouvement. - Instant photography. - The moving portrait. Note: Satire of photography's rise in popularity; comic exaggeration of blurred results. Plate 10. Un mal nécessaire. - Le percepteur des contributions. - A necessary evil. - The tax collector. Note: Traditional caricature of the hated taxman; grotesquely portrayed as an unwelcome guest. Plate 11. Actualité parisienne. - Les embarras de voitures. - Paris news. - The traffic jams. Note: Caricature of Haussmann's Paris with elegant carriages and omnibuses locked in chaotic congestion. Plate 12. Un petit malheur. - Le parapluie perdu. - A little misfortune. - The lost umbrella. Note: Everyday humor; the gentleman adrift in the rain without his indispensable umbrella. Plate 13. L'actualité musicale. - Le piano dans tous les salons. - Musical news. - The piano in every salon. Note: Satire on the bourgeois obsession with piano lessons and the noisy spread of amateur music-making. Plate 14. Les plaisirs de campagne. - Le déjeuner sur l'herbe. - Country pleasures. - The picnic. Note: Parody of rustic leisure; exaggerated figures feasting outdoors with comic mishaps. Plate 15. L'exposition universelle. - L'affluence des visiteurs. - The Universal Exhibition. - The crowd of visitors. Note: Commentary on the massive crowds at the Paris World's Fairs; shows confusion and jostling at the gates. Plate 16. La mode d'été. - Robes légères et transparentes. - Summer fashion. - Light and transparent dresses. Note: Satirical view of women's revealing dresses poking fun at modesty versus display. Plate 17. Les embellissements de Paris. - Les fontaines nouvelles. - The embellishments of Paris. - The new fountains. Note: Humor about Haussmann's civic improvements; gawkers admiring lavish public fountains. Plate 18. Actualité de la chasse. - Le gibier rare. - Hunting news. - The rare game. Note: Comic rural hunting scene; hunters proudly displaying ridiculous or unimpressive catches. Plate 19. Le progrès des sciences. - La machine à parler. - Progress in science. - The talking machine. Note: Satire on new inventions; proto-phonograph device humorously misfiring. Plate 20. Les bals masqués. - Quelle méprise! - Masked balls. - What a mistake! Note: Social satire of mistaken identity at costume balls; a common theme in Cham's humor. Plate 21. La guerre future. - Les aérostats militaires. - The future war. - Military balloons. Note: Fantastical vision of aerial warfare; anticipates both science fiction and future military innovations. Plate 22. Actualité mondaine. - Les visites du jour de l'an. - Society news. - New Year's visits. Note: Satire of endless social calls required at New Year; exhausted visitors and hosts alike. Plate 23. Un petit scandale. - La loge indiscrète. - A little scandal. - The indiscreet theater box. Note: Caricature of flirtations and impropriety observed at the opera. Plate 24. Les bains de mer. - Nouvelle distraction de la mode. - Sea bathing. - A new fashionable diversion. Note: Parisian society at the seaside; awkward swimsuits and seaside follies lampooned. Plate 25. Politique intérieure. - Le budget avalé. - Domestic politics. - The swallowed budget. Note: Allegory of the state devouring taxes; ministers pictured literally gobbling up public funds. Plate 26. La photographie en plein air. - Portrait de famille. - Outdoor photography. - Family portrait. Note: Humor on the stiff chaotic poses of families attempting photographs in public parks. Plate 27. L'actualité culinaire. - Les huîtres de la saison. - Culinary news. - The oysters of the season. Note: Satire of Parisian gourmands; a dandy overeats oysters to comic excess. Plate 28. La mode exagérée. - Crinolines impossibles. - Exaggerated fashion. - Impossible crinolines. Note: Caricature of giant hoop skirts blocking doorways and omnibuses. Plate 29. La chasse aux canards. - Un coup manqué. - Duck hunting. - A missed shot. Note: Humorous sporting failure; sportsmen fire in vain while ducks escape. Plate 30. Politique européenne. - La Pologne sacrifiée. - European politics. - Poland sacrificed. Note: Allegorical satire on the partitions and abandonment of Poland by European powers. Plate 31. Les joies du carnaval. - La bataille de confetti. - The joys of carnival. - The confetti battle. Note: Parody of carnival festivities with an explosion of paper masks and chaos. Plate 32. Un accident parisien. - La cheminée qui tombe. - A Paris accident. - The falling chimney. Note: Social humor; pedestrians flee from falling masonry in a crowded street. Plate 33. La pêche miraculeuse. - Rien que des bottes. - The miraculous catch. - Nothing but boots. Note: Satire of amateur fishermen; pulling up rubbish instead of fish. Plate 34. La toilette de bal. - Les corsets nouveaux. - The ball dress. - The new corsets. Note: Fashion caricature; women squeezed to absurd proportions by corsetry. Plate 35. Actualité dramatique. - La tragédie au boulevard. - Dramatic news. - Tragedy on the boulevard. Note: Comic melodrama of fainting women and exaggerated gestures parodying boulevard theater. Plate 36. Le progrès des transports. - Le chemin de fer sous-marin. - Progress in transport. - The submarine railway. Note: Fantastical satire; fish peering into a train carriage beneath the sea. Plate 37. L'actualité domestique. - Le chat gourmand. - Domestic news. - The greedy cat. Note: Comic household scene; pets stealing food from the table. Plate 38. Politique italienne. - Rome toujours attendue. - Italian politics. - Rome always awaited. Note: Allusion to the unresolved "Roman Question" and Italian unification struggles. Plate 39. Les élégances d'hiver. - Les fourrures nouvelles. - Winter elegance. - The new furs. Note: Satire of ladies in enormous fur wraps exaggerating luxury. Plate 40. Les fiacres de Paris. - Voyage mouvementé. - Paris cabs. - A bumpy ride. Note: Comic mishap of passengers being jolted violently in horse-drawn cabs. Plate 41. La guerre des sexes. - Les femmes triomphantes. - The war of the sexes. - Triumphant women. Note: Gender satire; women depicted overpowering their husbands or suitors. Plate 42. Actualité champêtre. - La moisson abondante. - Rural news. - The abundant harvest. Note: Rustic humor; peasants overloaded with giant sheaves of wheat. Plate 43. Les bains publics. - La pudeur compromise. - Public baths. - Modesty compromised. Note: Gentle satire of bathhouses nudity and awkward social mixing. Plate 44. La photographie d'art. - La pose difficile. - Art photography. - The difficult pose. Note: Humor about stiff unnatural posing required for long exposure times. Plate 45. Politique prussienne. - Le casque à pointe envahissant. - Prussian politics. - The invading spiked helmet. Note: Allusion to Prussia's militarism and looming threat in Europe. Plate 46. Actualité financière. - Le spéculateur ruiné. - Financial news. - The ruined speculator. Note: Commentary on stock market speculation and sudden bankruptcies. Plate 47. Les modes extravagantes. - Les paniers gigantesques. - Extravagant fashions. - Gigantic panniers. Note: Satire of revived 18th-century-style hoops blocking entire staircases. Plate 48. Les journaux du matin. - L'abonné impatient. - Morning newspapers. - The impatient subscriber. Note: A bourgeois anxiously waiting for his paper; lampoon of media obsession. Plate 49. Les inondations. - Paris sous l'eau. - The floods. - Paris under water. Note: Satirical exaggeration of floods with citizens floating in bathtubs or boats. Plate 50. Politique espagnole. - Toujours des révolutions. - Spanish politics. - Always revolutions. Note: Allusion to chronic unrest in Spain with revolts and changes of regime caricatured. Plate 51. La guerre en Orient. - Le Turc et le Russe face à face. - War in the East. - The Turk and the Russian face to face. Note: Satire of Russo-Turkish tensions often staged as dueling caricature figures. Plate 52. Les omnibus à impériale. - Les places convoitées. - Double-decker omnibuses. - The coveted seats. Note: Humor on passengers scrambling for seats on the upper deck. Plate 53. La chasse aux mouches. - Inutile précaution. - Fly hunting. - A useless precaution. Note: Domestic humor; clumsy attempts to swat flies exaggerated into chaos. Plate 54. Politique française. - Les orateurs à la tribune. - French politics. - The speakers at the tribune. Note: Ridicule of parliamentary debates with deputies gesturing wildly. Plate 55. Les pêcheurs du dimanche. - Toujours bredouilles. - Sunday fishermen. - Always empty-handed. Note: Gentle mockery of amateur fishermen returning without a catch. Plate 56. Les élégances de bal. - La valse effrénée. - Ballroom elegance. - The frantic waltz. Note: Caricature of fashionable dancing couples whirling to absurd extremes. Plate 57. Politique autrichienne. - Le double aigle embarrassé. - Austrian politics. - The embarrassed double eagle. Note: Satire of Austria's weakness and confusion in European affairs. Plate 58. Le progrès militaire. - Les canons monstrueux. - Military progress. - The monstrous cannons. Note: Exaggerated giant artillery; commentary on the escalating arms race. Plate 59. Les théâtres du boulevard. - Une scène larmoyante. - Boulevard theaters. - A tearful scene. Note: Satire of sentimental stage melodramas with over-acted weeping. Plate 60. Les chapeaux de printemps. - Une pyramide ambulante. - Spring hats. - A walking pyramid. Note: Comic exaggeration of towering women's hats. Plate 61. Actualité nautique. - Le canotage à la mode. - Nautical news. - Rowing in fashion. Note: Parisian society indulging in boating often with comic mishaps. Plate 62. Politique allemande. - L'unité impossible. - German politics. - Unity impossible. Note: Satire on the fragmented German states before unification. Plate 63. Les chiens savants. - Spectacle nouveau. - Trained dogs. - A new show. Note: Humor on performing animals parody of circus spectacles. Plate 64. Les modes d'hiver. - Manches exagérées. - Winter fashions. - Exaggerated sleeves. Note: Fashion satire; sleeves so large they obstruct doorways. Plate 65. La poste aux lettres. - Toujours en retard. - The postal service. - Always late. Note: Complaint about unreliable mail delivery with citizens waiting impatiently. Plate 66. Politique belge. - Le petit royaume menacé. - Belgian politics. - The little kingdom threatened. Note: Satire on Belgium caught between powerful neighbors. Plate 67. Les photographes de campagne. - L'âne indiscret. - Country photographers. - The indiscreet donkey. Note: Comic intrusion of animals into rural photographic sessions. Plate 68. Les loteries. - Le gros lot rêvé. - Lotteries. - Dreaming of the jackpot. Note: Satire on gambling and unrealistic expectations of sudden wealth. Plate 69. La mode des bottines. - Les pieds minuscules. - The fashion of boots. - Tiny feet. Note: Exaggeration of ladies' shoes shrinking feet to absurd proportions. Plate 70. Politique suisse. - Toujours neutre. - Swiss politics. - Always neutral. Note: Humor about Switzerland's perpetual neutrality portrayed as cautious passivity. Plate 71. Les catastrophes de chemin de fer. - Le wagon culbuté. - Railway disasters. - The overturned carriage. Note: Commentary on frequent railway accidents of the era. Plate 72. Les mariages arrangés. - La dot avant tout. - Arranged marriages. - The dowry before all. Note: Social satire on mercenary marriages with grotesquely mismatched couples. Plate 73. La guerre future. - Les cuirassés volants. - The future war. - Flying ironclads. Note: Fantastical vision of airborne warships; parody of military invention. Plate 74. Les excentricités de Paris. - Le promeneur masqué. - Paris eccentricities. - The masked stroller. Note: Humor on fashionable oddities; a man walking the boulevards in disguise. Plate 75. Politique anglaise. - Toujours pragmatique. - English politics. - Always pragmatic. Note: Caricature of Britain as practical and calculating contrasted with continental turmoil. Plate 76. Les modes extravagantes. - Les traînes interminables. - Extravagant fashions. - Endless trains. Note: Satire of impractically long gown trains sweeping the streets. Plate 77. Politique russe. - L'ours toujours menaçant. - Russian politics. - The ever-threatening bear. Note: Symbolic cartoon of Russia's power shown as a hulking bear. Plate 78. Les bains de vapeur. - La sudation universelle. - Steam baths. - Universal perspiration. Note: Gentle parody of spa culture and sweating rooms. Plate 79. Les journaux illustrés. - Les gravures ressemblantes - Illustrated newspapers. - Resembling engravings Note: Satire on crude likenesses in the press. Plate 80. La guerre de l'avenir. - Les soldats mécaniques. - The war of the future. - Mechanical soldiers. Note: Proto-science fiction; caricature of automaton troops. Plate 81. Politique italienne. - Garibaldi impatient. - Italian politics. - Garibaldi impatient. Note: Caricature of Garibaldi waiting for unity depicted restlessly. Plate 82. Les expositions de peinture. - Le tableau incompris. - Art exhibitions. - The misunderstood painting. Note: Comic reactions of the public to modern art. Plate 83. Les élégances de ville. - Le monocle général. - City elegance. - The universal monocle. Note: Satire of dandies and their fashionable monocles. Plate 84. La guerre maritime. - Les torpilles nouvelles. - Naval war. - The new torpedoes. Note: Exaggerated inventions in naval warfare. Plate 85. Les modes enfantines. - Les poupées vivantes. - Children's fashions. - Living dolls. Note: Children dressed in absurdly adult styles. Plate 86. Politique espagnole. - Toujours des pronunciamientos. - Spanish politics. - Always pronunciamientos. Note: Commentary on Spain's frequent military coups. Plate 87. Les amateurs de curiosités. - La collection encombrante. - Collectors of curiosities. - The cumbersome collection. Note: Lampoon of obsessive collecting cabinets overflowing with oddities. Plate 88. La guerre future. - Les canons volants. - Future war. - Flying cannons. Note: Fantastical satire of airborne artillery. Plate 89. Les modes d'hiver. - Les bonnets astronomiques. - Winter fashions. - Astronomical bonnets. Note: Giant headwear likened to celestial globes. Plate 90. Politique française. - Le budget en équilibre. - French politics. - The balanced budget. Note: Irony on the impossibility of balancing state finances. Plate 91. Les excentricités de la science. - L'homme volant. - Scientific eccentricities. - The flying man. Note: Parody of early aviation experiments. Plate 92. Les élégances champêtres. - Les ombrelles en fleurs. - Rural elegance. - Parasols of flowers. Note: Fanciful fashion plates turned comic. Plate 93. Politique prussienne. - Le casque à pointe triomphant. - Prussian politics. - The triumphant spiked helmet. Note: Symbolic of Prussia's victories in the late 1860s. Plate 94. Les amateurs de pêche. - Toujours la même histoire. - Fishing enthusiasts. - Always the same story. Note: Fishermen exaggerating their catch. Plate 95. Les élégances du bal. - Les plumes interminables. - Ballroom elegance. - Endless feathers. Note: Mockery of plumed headpieces colliding in the ballroom. Plate 96. Politique anglaise. - Le lion flegmatique. - English politics. - The phlegmatic lion. Note: Britain personified as calm and calculating. Plate 97. La guerre future. - Les fusées intelligentes. - Future war. - Intelligent rockets. Note: Satirical anticipation of guided missiles. Plate 98. Les promenades au bois. - Les élégances en voiture. - Walks in the Bois. - Elegant carriages. Note: Satire of the fashionable promenade at the Bois de Boulogne. Plate 99. Politique autrichienne. - L'aigle à deux têtes affamé. - Austrian politics. - The hungry double-headed eagle. Note: Austria depicted as weakened and needy. Plate 100. Les élégances de théâtre. - Les lorgnettes indiscrètes. - Theater elegance. - Indiscreet opera glasses. Note: Comic intrusion of spying spectators. Plate 101. Les modes d'été. - Les robes ballons. - Summer fashions. - Balloon dresses. Note: Crinolines rendered as literal balloons floating upward. Plate 102. Politique belge. - Le petit royaume entre géants. - Belgian politics. - The little kingdom among giants. Note: Belgium squeezed between Prussia and France. Plate 103. Les nouvelles inventions. - La machine à laver automatique. - New inventions. - The automatic washing machine. Note: Satirical exaggeration of mechanical household devices. Plate 104. Les modes excentriques. - Les coiffures pyramides. - Eccentric fashions. - Pyramid hairstyles. Note: Hair piled absurdly high. Plate 105. Politique française. - Le peuple et les impôts. - French politics. - The people and the taxes. Note: Grotesque allegory of taxpayers crushed under burdens. Plate 106. Les sports modernes. - Le vélocipède triomphant. - Modern sports. - The triumphant velocipede. Note: Early cycling craze mocked. Plate 107. Politique suisse. - Toujours entre deux chaises. - Swiss politics. - Always between two chairs. Note: Satire on neutrality and indecision. Plate 108. Les élégances nouvelles. - Le chapeau parapluie. - New elegance. - The umbrella-hat. Note: Fanciful hybrid fashion accessory. Plate 109. La guerre future. - Les soldats sous-marins. - Future war. - Submarine soldiers. Note: Imaginary underwater infantry. Plate 110. Politique italienne. - Rome encore promise. - Italian politics. - Rome again promised. Note: Delay of Rome's incorporation into Italy. Plate 111. Les élégances parisiennes. - Le chien bijou. - Parisian elegance. - The jewel-dog. Note: Fashionable women carrying jewel-bedecked pets. Plate 112. Les inventions nouvelles. - Le lit automatique. - New inventions. - The automatic bed. Note: Parody of "labor-saving" contraptions. Plate 113. Politique européenne. - Le congrès confus. - European politics. - The confused congress. Note: Delegates at a European congress portrayed in disarray. Plate 114. Les modes extravagantes. - Les jupons volants. - Extravagant fashions. - Flying petticoats. Note: Satire of undergarments turned into absurd balloons. Plate 115. Les catastrophes parisiennes. - La maison qui s'écroule. - Paris disasters. - The collapsing house. Note: Humor on urban accidents during Haussmann's works. Plate 116. La guerre future. - Le globe terrestre fortifié. - Future war. - The fortified globe. Note: Finale vision of Earth itself as a fortress; ultimate parody of militarism. Paris: Arnauld de Vresse & Martinet, 1864 unknown
Best.-Nr. 05542Paris: Chez Aubert Éditeur du Musée Philipon. 1842. Twenty Superb Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Daumier Cham Beaumont & Quillenbois DAUMIER Honoré & others. Paris Comique Revue Amusante Des Caractères Moeurs Modes Folies Ridicules Excentricités Niaiseries Bêtises Sottises Voleries et Infamies Parisiennes. Text non politique Par MM. L. Huart Michelant Ch. Philipon et autres Rédacteurs du Charivari et de la Caricature: Dessins Comiques par MM. Bouchot Cham de N. Daumier Gavarni Grandville et autrés artistes du Musée Philipon. Paris: Chez Aubert Éditeur. 1844. Folio 13 x 9 7/8 inches; 329 x 250 mm. iv 160 pp. Twenty magnificent hand colored lithographs all heightened with gum arabic. The plates are by Honoré Daumier 10; Cham 8; Beaumont 1 & Quillenbois 1. Contemporary ca. 1844 quarter dark green morocco over green paper boards front cover with gilt emblem. Spine with five raised bands tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments marbled endpapers. An excellent example with ten of the wonderful hand colored lithographs by Honoré Daumier. "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. DAUMIER. La Tragédie. "Que de soins m'ont couté cette tête charmante ! ." Phèdre. DR 1740 The Tragedy. How much worries this charming face has caused me. 2. DAUMIER. La Tragédie. "Venez dignes soutiens de la grandeur romaine." "Compagnons de César approchez!." La mort de César. DR 1741 The Tragedy. Come dignified pillars of Roman grandeur. friends of Caesar approach! 3. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. - Eh! bien monsieur et mes trois termes. vous me direz toujours que vos meubles en répondent!. DR 1624 Tenants and Owners. Well Monsieur and my three months rent. you are always telling me that your furniture serves as collateral. 4. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. Vois comme ils m'avaient abimé mes murailles avec leurs conduits de cheminée. on ne devrait pas permettre aux locataires de faire du feu!. DR 1623 Tenants and Owners. See how they have damaged my walls with their chimney ducts. tenants really shouldn't be allowed to have a heating. 5. CHAM. Les Fêtes Champêtres. Inconvénient de diner sur l'herbe non loin d'une ménagerie. Jeu d'adresse sentimental et patriotique. Country festivals. Disadvantage of dining on the grass not far from a menagerie. Sentimental and patriotic game of skill. 6. DAUMIER. Actualités. Allant aux renseignements Politiques chez le concierge du Général Changarnier. DR 2103 News. The public opinion gets its information on politics from the housekeeper of general Changarnier. 7. CHAM. Actualités. Monsieur Odilon continuant à chasser et à exterminer tous les snagliers qu'il rencontre. News. Monsieur Odilon continues to hunt and exterminate all the snagliers he encounters. 8. CHAM. Les Fêtes Champêtres. Elite de la société de Mabile au bal de Noisy-le-Sec. Mr. le maire n'est plus content. Country festivals. Elite of Mabile's society at the ball at Noisy-le-Sec. Mr. Mayor is no longer happy. 9. BEAUMONT. Au Bal Masqué. Cette Petite ligne m'annonce que votre vertu va enfin trouver sa récompense.un fort marchand de papier en gros s'apprête à vous demander en mariage! J'aimerais mieux un restaurateur.je me commanderais un crâne souper tous les jours de bal! At the masked ball. This Little Line announces to me that your virtue will finally find its reward.a strong merchant of wholesale paper is about to ask you in marriage! I'd rather have a restaurant owner.I'd order myself a skull supper every prom day! 10. CHAM. Les Politiques de Marais. Eh! Bien et les nouvelles du Portugal. Je suis un peu plus rassuré les nouvelles doivent être meilleures je remarque aujourd'hui que les marchandes d'oranges sont moins abattues.je ne vous cacherai pas qu'il y a deux jours j'étais bien effrayé on m'avait fait une orange dix sous!. Marsh Politics. Hey! Well what about the news from Portugal. I'm a little more reassured the news must be better I notice today that the orange sellers are less despondent.I won't hide from you that there two days later I was very frightened they had made me an orange ten sous!. 11. CHAM. Actualités. Lecture de journaux donnant des nouvelles peu rassurantes. News. Reading newspapers giving not very reassuring news. 12. CHAM. Actualités. Une Séance de la Commission de Surveillance. Nous constatons au procès verbal que présentement la ville de Paris est uniquement occupée de ballons!. News. A meeting of the Supervisory Commission. We note in the minutes that currently the city of Paris is only occupied with balloons!. 13. CHAM. Actualités. Le Beau sexe voyant grâce aux sergens de ville les jeux de Bourse transformés en des parties de barres. News. The fair sex seeing thanks to the sergens de ville the stock exchange games transformed into bar games. 14. DAUMIER. Actualités. Un nouvel Almaviva venant essayer de séduire Rosine-Véron en lui donnant une sérénade sur l'air de Vive Henri V. DR 2110 News. A new Almaviva trying to seduce Rosine - Véron by singing her a serenade on the tune of Vive Henry V. 15. QUILLENBOIS. Prophéties Charivariques. Les cabinets de lecture subiront des agrandissemens reclamés par le format des journaux. Le journal la semaine trouvera un abonné. Les abonnés de l'Epoque porteront un uniforme. Les porteurs du journal seront tenus de les saluer. Charivaric prophecies. The reading cabinets will undergo enlargements demanded by the format of the newspapers. The weekly newspaper will find a subscriber. Epoch subscribers will wear a uniform. Newspaper carriers will be required to salute them. 16. CHAM. Actualités. Dègoûté de la politique le directeur du Constitutionnel se décide à attendre désormais bien tranquillement l'arrivée du mois de Mai de l'an 1852. News. Disgusted with politics the director of Le Constitutionnel decided to wait quietly for the arrival of the month of May in the year 1852. 17. DAUMIER. Actualitiés. Surveillant la Commission de Surveillance. DR 3957 News. Supervising the supervisory commission. 18. DAUMIER. Actualitiés. Un nouveau Bélisaire. DR 2107 News. A new Belisarius. 19. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. Deux bons voisins. DR 1618 Tenants and Owners. Two good neighbors. 20. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. Locataires noctambules. DR 1619 Tenants and Owners. Nighttime movers. Paris: Chez Aubert, Éditeur du Musée Philipon..., 1842 unknown
Best.-Nr. 04875Paris: Maison Martinet 1856. Three of Cham's Rarest Works with Sixty Wonderful Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé. Three complete works bound together in one volume - L'Art d'engraisser et de Maigrir a Volonté. & Mr. Papillon & Pincez-moi à la Campagne!! First editions. Folio 12 11/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 326 x 251 mm. Three pictorial hand colored lithograph title-pages and a total of sixty hand colored lithograph plates heightened with gum arabic. Plates lithographed by Fernique & Destouches. Bound together in late nineteenth century olive green buckram over boards marbled endpapers. Spine a little rubbed the plates bright and fresh with superb hand-coloring. The Art of Gaining Weight and The Art of Losing Weight Twenty Highly Amusing Multi-Image Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Cham CHAM Pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé. L'Art d'Engraisser et de Maigrir a Volonté. The art of gaining and losing weight with willpower. Paris: Maison Martinet 1857. Pictorial hand colored lithograph title-page and twenty hand colored lithograph plates heightened with gum Arabic and containing seventy-nine images. Plates lithographed by Fernique. A highly amusing album depicting the adventures of the very thin Mr. Lesec who wants to gain weight and the rather plump Mr. Legras who wants to lose weight. Both Mr. Lesec and Mr. Legras are getting married and there is much going on in their households. They leave jointly for Algeria and go lion hunting. this adventure unfortunately causes Mr. Legras to gain weight and Mr. Lesec to lose several kilos. The same thing happens during a subsequent adventure with a camel. Unfortunately the two friends leave Algeria for Italy then for Turkey Crimea India where they live multiple adventures that leave them in their respective physical states. They both decide to return to France Mr Legras dies from being severely overweight - and the very depressed Mr Lesec just gets thinner and thinner and eventually also dies. Somewhat scarce with OCLC locating just four colored copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Morgan Library & Museum NY; University of Chicago IL; Boston Public Library MA; Victoria & Albert Museum London UK. There are also two other 'uncolored' copies: Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin Germany & National Library of Poland Biblioteka Naro Poland. Mr. Papillon's Highly Amusing Voyage Around the World Love and Romance in Various Countries CHAM Pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé. Mr. Papillon ou L'Amour Autour du Monde. Paris: Maison Martinet 1856. Pictorial hand-colored lithograph title-page and twenty hand-colored lithograph plates heightened with gum Arabic and containing sixty-eight amusing images. The plates clean and fresh with superb hand coloring. Plates lithographed by Fernique. Mr. Papillon's highly amusing voyage around the world depicting love and romance in different countries. Rare. OCLC locates just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Pinch Me I'm In the Country!! Now Get Me Out of Here The Scarcest Cham of All CHAM pseud. of Amédée de Noé. Pincez-moi a la campagne!! Paris: Maison Martinet n.d. c. 1860. Pictorial hand-colored lithographed title-page and twenty hand-colored lithographed plates heightened with gum Arabic and containing eighty-six humorous scenes with captions. Plates lithographed by Destouches. Original quarter green pebble-cloth over green grained-paper boards with blindstamped decoration and gilt lettering. Of Amédée de Noé "known as Cham that is Ham the son of Noah.it was said that he had ‘an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège 173 in which Daumier was his collaborator are typical of his work" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book pp. 155-156. In the ninety-seven years since 1923 that ABPC has been recording auction results not a single copy of this work has fallen under the hammer. All albums by Cham are scarce; the volume under notice is extremely so. Only eight copies survive in institutional holdings worldwide. The gently amusing trials of an urban gentleman preparing for a vacation in the French countryside and the hilarious tribulations once he arrives. In essence Woody Allen leaves Manhattan for the Catskills and copes with nature and rural life. CHAM pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé 1818-1879. "It is to be regretted that space will not serve to represent the caricaturists and depictors of manners who followed in the wake of Daumier and Gavarni. Among the most attractive of the former is Amédée de Noé known as Cham that is Ham the son of Noah of whom it was said that he had ‘an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège in which Daumier was his collaborator are typical of his work" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book pp. 155-156. Paris: Maison Martinet, 1856 unknown books
Best.-Nr. 04875Paris: Maison Martinet 1856. Three of Cham's Greatest Rarities Three Complete Hand-Colored Albums Bound Together Sixty Superb Hand-Colored Lithographs by the Great Master of French Comic Illustration CHAM pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé 1818-1879. L'Art d'Engraisser et de Maigrir à Volonté. & Mr. Papillon ou L'Amour Autour du Monde. & Pincez-moi à la Campagne!! Paris: Maison Martinet 1856-ca. 1860. Three complete first editions bound together in one folio volume. Folio 12 11/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 326 x 251 mm. Three magnificent pictorial hand-colored lithograph title-pages and sixty superb hand-colored lithograph plates all heightened with gum arabic and containing more than two hundred individual comic scenes. Plates lithographed by Fernique and Destouches. Late nineteenth-century olive-green buckram over boards marbled endpapers. Spine lightly rubbed. An exceptionally bright fresh copy the original hand-coloring remarkably vibrant throughout and beautifully heightened with gum arabic. Few artists captured the humor absurdity and quiet eccentricities of nineteenth-century French life more brilliantly than Cham. During a career spanning more than forty years Charles Amédée de Noé became one of the principal illustrators of Le Charivari producing thousands of caricatures that chronicled bourgeois society with inexhaustible wit and extraordinary graphic invention. While Daumier supplied biting political satire and Gavarni revealed the elegance and vanities of Parisian society Cham excelled in transforming the comic mishaps of everyday life into irresistibly entertaining visual narratives. His finest work appeared not only in newspapers but as luxurious hand-colored lithographic albums published by Maison Martinet. Intended for the fashionable drawing room rather than the newsstand these beautifully colored folios represent the highest achievement of French comic lithography during the Second Empire. Complete examples are today among the rarest survivals of nineteenth-century illustrated publishing. The present volume unites three of Cham's most elusive albums each complete and preserved with exceptionally rich contemporary hand-coloring. Together they comprise sixty large folio lithographs whose sparkling color and delicate gum arabic highlights remain remarkably fresh. The Art of Gaining Weight and Losing Weight Cham's wonderfully absurd satire on Victorian health fads follows the fortunes of two inseparable friends whose greatest ambitions could scarcely be more different. Monsieur Lesec painfully thin longs to become stout while the enormously overweight Monsieur Legras dreams only of becoming slim. Their increasingly desperate attempts at self-improvement lead them across Europe North Africa the Crimea Turkey and India where every new adventure - from lion hunting and camel riding to exotic diets and improbable medical cures - produces precisely the opposite effect. Cham transforms what begins as a parody of fashionable diet manuals into a wonderfully sustained comic novel in pictures culminating in a delightfully macabre conclusion worthy of the finest nineteenth-century satire. Only four hand-colored institutional copies are recorded worldwide. Mr. Papillon or Love Around the World Among Cham's rarest productions Mr. Papillon recounts the romantic adventures of an incurable optimist whose search for love carries him from country to country. Everywhere he encounters unfamiliar customs impossible misunderstandings cultural mishaps and romantic disappointment each episode providing Cham with fresh opportunities for gentle social satire. The album is one of Cham's most elegant narrative works combining graceful draftsmanship with an effortless sense of comic timing. Beneath its humor lies a sly parody of both sentimental romance and the fashionable travel literature of the period. Only a single institutional copy appears to survive. Pinch Me I'm in the Country!! Perhaps the rarest of all Cham's albums Pincez-moi à la Campagne!! is a masterpiece of observational comedy. Convinced that life in the countryside promises peace simplicity and healthy recreation an urbane Parisian eagerly exchanges the capital for rural France. His idyllic expectations collapse almost immediately. Instead he encounters uncomfortable lodgings impossible furniture sleepless nights aggressive livestock disastrous hunting expeditions endless insects suspicious villagers and every conceivable rural inconvenience. Each attempt to embrace country life merely compounds his misery producing one comic disaster after another. More than a century and a half later Cham's observations remain strikingly modern. His humor derives not from exaggerated caricature alone but from universal human experience - the city dweller discovering that nature is far less accommodating than imagined. The album anticipates the gentle observational comedy of Jacques Tati and possesses a timeless quality rarely found in nineteenth-century caricature. In more than one hundred years of recorded auction results we have been unable to trace another copy. Only eight institutional examples are known worldwide. Cham's comic albums occupy a unique position in the history of French illustration. They bridge the gap between the early Romantic lithographers and the mature social satire of the later nineteenth century combining sophisticated narrative structure with some of the most attractive hand-colored lithography ever produced in Paris. As Gordon N. Ray observed: "Among the most attractive. is Amédée de Noé known as Cham. of whom it was said that he had 'an idea a day' for Le Charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums." The Art of the French Illustrated Book pp. 155-156. Three complete hand-colored albums by Cham are seldom encountered together. Preserved in such fresh condition with unusually brilliant original coloring and comprising three of the artist's rarest publications this volume represents one of the finest surviving monuments to the golden age of French comic lithography. Paris: Maison Martinet, 1856 unknown
