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ref. 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
ref. 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 books
ref. 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
ref. 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 books
ref. 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
ref. 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 books
ref. 05269Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari.et chez Martinet 1859. The Moroccan Sultan Monsieur Prudhomme and the Chinese Emperor Thirty Fine Humorous Lithographs by Honoré Daumier Bound together with Les Cosaques Pour Rire Forty fine lithographs by Daumier Cham & Vernier DAUMIER Honoré. Album des Charges du Jour. 30 Lithographies par H. Daumier. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari.et chez Martinet 1859-60. First edition. Oblong folio 10 3/8 x 13 5/16 inches; 264 x 338 mm. Lithographed pictorial title-page and thirty superb plates by Daumier lithographed by Destouches. This scarce album contains thirty fine and humorous lithographs by Daumier which had previously appeared in the Le Charivari in the series: Actualités En Chine Croquis de Chasse Ces Bons Parisiens and Emotions Nautiques. The three figures featured on the front cover and the title-page are: the Moroccan sultan Mr. Prudhomme a stereotypical bourgeois and the Chinese emperor. OCLC locates just two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide New York Public Library NY USA & The Morgan Library & Museum NY USA. and CHAM DAUMIER & Charles VERNIER. Les Cosaques Pour Rire. Album de Quarante Caricatures. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari 1853-54. First edition. Oblong folio 10 3/8 x 13 5/16 inches; 264 x 338 mm. Original lithographed yellow wrapper title-page and forty superb plates by Daumier 18 Cham 11 and Vernier 11 all lithographed by Destouches. This scarce album contains forty amusing lithographs by Daumier Cham and Vernier "Les Cosaques Pour Rire" or "The Cossacks in Jest" illustrates caricatures from the Crimean War 1853-1856. Daumier humorously depicts Russian military command soldiers and the czar pertaining to either the Crimean War or to the Cossacks. OCLC locates just two copies of this work in libraries and institutions worldwide Brown University RI USA & The Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Two works bound together in one volume. The plates have been expertly washed. Both of the original front wrappers are present. Modern tree calf front cover lettered in gilt "Album Comique" smooth spine lettered in gilt "Daumier". Cockerel style endpapers. The Plates: Album des Charges du Jour 1. - Dire que nous v'la Parisiens!. Unbelievable. we are Parisians now too! DR #3235; Actualités 2. Mr. Prudhomme - Mon fils rappelle toi ce jour mémorable où tu as vu démolir à jamais le mur d'octroi. rappelle-toi que tôt ou tard la philosophie produit de la raison humaine; renversera de même les barrières des préjugés sociaux!. Le Petit Adolphe- Oui papa!. mais dis donc. papa . pourquoi qu'on les reconstruit un peu plus loin. Mr. Prudhomme - My son remember that memorable day when you saw the wall of the grant being demolished forever . remember that sooner or later philosophy product of human reason; will also reverse the barriers of social prejudice! . Little Adolphe- Yes dad! . but say so . dad . why do we rebuild them a little further . DR #10945; Actualités 141 3. Le Diamant Magnétiseur. Nouveau divertissement des soirées. - ou manière de s'amuser et de se faire loucher en société sans se fâcher. The Diamond Hypnotist. A new pastime at evening parties - or how to have fun and get someone to squint without getting into trouble. DR #3227; Actualités 134 4. Une Application Utile du Diamant Magnétiseur. - Ma femme est bien magnétisée!. je peux filer tranquillement pour le bal de l'opéra. dors bien bobonne!. Practical Application for a Diamond Hypnotist. My wife is hypnotized. now I can quietly leave for the opera ball. sleep well my dear! DR #3230; Actualités 140 5. Toujours les merveilles du diamant magnétiseur. - ou manière en société de faire prendre aux dames des poses non moins fatigantes que disgracieuses. More marvels from the diamond hypnotist. Or how to make the ladies pose in society in exhausting and not very gracious positions. DR #3228; Actualités 137 6. - Mon ami. viens donc voir ces jolis diamants!. - Ne regarde pas cela. imprudente!. ça te ferait loucher!!. - My dear come and have a look at these beautiful diamonds! - Don't even look at them you careless woman. they'll make you cross-eyed! DR #3229; Actualités 138 7. La Chiromancie Nouveau Passe Temps Des Bons Parisiens. - Adélaïde. j'ai beau chercher. je ne me trouve pas la petite ligne qui annonce une longue vie. mon Dieu!. dois-je donc mourir à la fleur de l'âge!. Palmistry New Parisian Pastime. - Adelaide. no matter how intensely I am searching I simply cannot find the line for long life. oh my God must I die in the prime of my days! DR #3240; Actualités 142 8. - Ah! Théophile. j'en apprends de belles sur ton compte. d'après le livre de Mr. Desbarolles je vois que tu as dans la main la ligne du libertinage!. - Ah!. bah. - Ah Théophile what ghastly things I am reading about you. According to the book by Mr. Desbarolles I can tell that you have in your palm the lines of a libertinage!. - Oh well. DR #3241; Ces Bons Parisiens 1 9. L'empereur du maroc consultant le celèbre sorcier desbarolles. - Voici une petite ligne qui m'indique que vous êtes destiné à recevoir une grande raclée!. The Emperor of Morocco in consultation with the Famous Magician Desbarolles. - This small line here indicates to me that you are going to get a royal thrashing! DR #3225 10. À Tanger - Sublime Majesté! . . . . . voici les Espagnols qui arrivent . . . . . je crois aller au devant de vos désirs afin de leur inspirer du respect . de déployer votre auguste parasol ! . - Laisse-moi donc tranquille Belboul avec mon parasol . . . . en ce moment-ci j'aimerais mieux avoir un Pare-à-balle ! . . . . . . In Tangiers. - Sublime Majesty. the Spanish are coming. in order to frighten them off I took the liberty to fully open your umbrella as a sign of your greatness! - Leave me alone with your umbrella Belboul. I would rather like to have an umbrella protecting me from their bullets. DR #3223 11. Le Cid se mettant aussi en campagne pour aller combattre les Maures. El Cid also takes to the field to fight against the Moors. DR #3233 12. Combat singulier entre le Cid et l'Empereur du Maroc. A unusual battle between El Cid and the emperor of Morocco. DR #3234 13. Un parasol dans une position difficile. An umbrella in a difficult position. DR #3224 14. - Voilà un vent qui va joliment contrarier le débarquement des Espagnols!. - Oui. mais c'est aussi un bien fichu temps pour mon parasol . - This wind will give the Spanish a hard time when disembarking. - Sure but look at what it is doing at my umbrella! DR #3226 15. - Dire que c'est là ce que les Français appellent des chinois!. Strange. this is what the French call "Chinois". DR #3120 16. - Ils vont être bien attrapés ces européens!. ils ont des canons qui sont terribles parce qu'ils sont rayés moi j'ai eu l'excellente idée de faire rayer tous mes soldats!. These Europeans will be quite surprised. they are using "rifled cannons" . thus I had the clever idea to add "rifles" stripes to the uniforms of my soldiers. DR #3118 17. Patrouille chinoise en reconnaissance. Chinese reconnaissance unit in action. DR #3117 18. - Tiens regarde cette caisse. elle renferme les envoyés Américains qui se rendent à Pékin!. - On dirait que cette voiture contient des animaux curieux. - Ma foi! s'ils sont curieux. tant pis pour eux car ils ne voient pas beaucoup le pays qu'ils traversent! - Look at that box - it contains the American envoys on the way to Peking! - Anyone would say it was a coach full of curious animals. - Well if they are curious so much the worse for them for they can't see much of the country they are travelling through. DR #3114 19. Arrivée à Pékin des ambassadeurs Américains. Arrival of the American Ambassador in Beijing. DR #3115 20. L'envoyé américain obtenant une audience de l'Empereur de la Chine. The Emperor of China receives the American Ambassador. DR #3116 21. - Tchinn-tchinn. tu m'apportes une bonne nouvelle!. je t'accorde l'insigne honneur de baiser l'auguste poussière de mes augustes souliers!. Tchinn Tchinn. you are bringing me good news! As a special sign of grace I will allow you to kiss the sublime dust of my sublime shoes! DR #3119 22. La Chine se civilisant. - Voyons. attention!. voici la théorie européenne. les yeux à quinze pas de distance et que le pied qui est à terre vienne rejoindre vivement celui qui est en l'air. China on its way to become civilized. Attention!. this is European theory now. the eyes must look fifteen feet ahead. . the foot on the ground must quickly join the one in the air. DR #3124 23. Fonctionnaires chinois veillant au salut de l'empire ! . Chinese civil servants diligently guarding over the welfare of the nation. DR #3123 24. -Tenez je viens de tuer un magnifique coq de bruyère!. -Mais malheureux!. c'est le coq Brahma de la ferme voisine. un coq qui vous coûtera peut-être plus de trente francs. sans compter les coups de fourche!. - Look! I just killed this magnificent grouse! . - Poor you! That is the rooster of the farm next door. That cock will cost you more than thirty francs not counting the pitchfork jabs! DR #3216 25. - Eh! bien. as-tu l'intention de rester là . - Non certes!. je t'attendais pour que tu me transportes sur ton dos jusqu'au village. - Merci à une lieue et demie d'ici!!. es-tu fou. - Allons!. voyons mon ami. fais comme si tu avais tué un chevreuil et que tu sois obligé de le rapporter chez toi!. - What about it. are you planning to stay here all day - Surely not. I thought you were going to carry me to the next village! - You must be joking. one and a half leagues. you must be crazy! - Oh come on. just pretend I were a stag you shot you would have had to carry him too. DR #3217 26. - Eh! bien. allons-nous continuer notre chasse malgré le vilain temps . . . . . - Non ! du tout . . . . . il pleut . . . . le gibier craint autant la pluie que nous . . . . il ne pourra manquer de venir se mettre à l'abri dans cette chaumière et nous allons en prendre beaucoup ! . . . . . . - Now what Are we going to continue hunting during the rain - Not at all! The animals are just as afraid of the rain as we are. They might not be able to find this shelter and we would end up losing too many of them! DR #3215 27. Mr. Prudhomme. - Comment . . . flots impudents ! . . . . . vous ne savez donc pas qui vous portez en ce moment que vous vous montrez si hardis à mon égard . . . . mer audacieuse! . . . apprends que comme Xerxès je pourrais te faire fouetter ! . . . . . Mme. Prudhomme Toute tremblante. - Oh! . . . mon ami . . . . . je t'en supplie ! . . . . ne lui dis pas d'insolences tu la mettrais en colère et elle serait capable de nous engloutir! . . . . . Mr. Prudhomme: - Obnoxious waves. don't you know whom you are carrying in this moment. oh audacious. know I shall like Xerxes whip you terribly. Mme Prudhomme: shivering of fear - Pray my dear friend do not offend the sea any longer. you might wake its fury and it might devour us completely! DR #3218 28. Les Eunuques Réformés par le Bey de Tunis. - Qu'allons-nous devenir. nous voilà mis à pied!. - Nous n'avons plus qu'à nous faire cochers de Constantinople!. Eunuchs reformed by the Bey of Tunis. - What's going to become of us. we have been fired. - The only thing we can do is go to Constantinople and become coachmen. DR #3237 29. Le nouveau costume des cochers turcs à Constantinople - Ni hommes ni femmes. tous eunuques!. Extrait de la nouvelle ordonnance. The new uniform of the Turkish coachmen in Constantinople. neither male nor female. all eunuchs. from the new ordinances. DR #3238 30. Une position difficile. - Tiraillé entre la civilisation et le parti rétograde. A difficult position. Torn between civilization and the conservative party. DR #3221 The Plates: Les Cosaques Pour Rire 1. Comme quoi la chasse ouvrira cette année bien avant le mois de Septembre. Cham Like what the hunt will open this year well before September. 2. Ayant eu l'imprudence de se lancer à toute Vitesse sur la route de St. Petersbourg à Constantinople. Cham Having had the imprudence to launch at full speed on the road from St. Petersburg to Constantinople. 3. Les soldats les mieux disciplines du monde. Daumier The best disciplined soldiers in the world. 4. Les Boyards réduits à cultivar eux-mêmes leurs terres par suite de l'enrôlement de leurs derniers paysans. Daumier The Boyars reduced to cultivating their land themselves following the enlistment of their last peasants. 5. Mes amis n'ayez pas peur je n'oublierai pas mon ancient état.j'vas tanner la peau aux Cosaques.travailler dans du vrai cuir de Russie quelle chance! Vernier My friends don't be afraid I won't forget my former state.I'm going to tan the skin of the Cossacks.working in real leather from Russia what luck! 6. l'Amiral Menschikoff en tournée d'inspection. Daumier Admiral Menschikoff on an inspection tour. 7. Le Faisceau. Il est solide je t'en préviens n'y touche pas. Vernier The beam. It's solid I warn you don't touch it. 8. Enrôlemens Volontaires en Russie. Pas tant de zèle!.il est inutile de vous bousculer comme ça pour signer.chacun son tour mes braves!. Vernier Voluntary enlistments in Russia. Not so zealous!.it is useless to rush you like that to sign.each in turn my braves!. 9. C'est drôle tout d'même!.dire qu'on ne pas la même langue et qu'on s'entend à merveille!. Vernier It's funny all the same! . to say that we don't speak the same language and that we get along wonderfully! 10. À Odessa. Bourgeois.je viens de vous donner ces torches avec la manière de vous en server.le premier d'enter vous qui ne mettra pas le feu à sa maison au premier signal aura affaire à moi.je ne vous dis que ça!. Vernier In Odessa. Bourgeois.I have just given you these torches with the way to use them.the first of you who does not set fire to his house at the first signal will have to deal with me.I am only telling you that!. . 11. Enflammant Le Courage De Ses Cosaques. Il sera distribué aux plus braves des chandelles d'honneur! Daumier Igniting the Courage of His Cossacks. It will be distributed to the bravest candles of honor! 12. Commençant à s'apercevoir qu on va le faire danser à grand orchestre et qu'il aura pas mal de violons à payer. Cham Beginning to realize that we are going to make him dance with a big orchestra and that he will have a lot of violins to pay for. 13. Soldats russes se préparant par le jeûne et l'abstinence à monter à l'assaut de Silistrie. Daumier Russian soldiers preparing by fasting and abstinence to mount the assault on Silistrie. 14. Un terrible cauchemar. Daumier A terrible nightmare. 15. Les Artilleurs de Nouvelle Création à Sébastopol. Le sentiment du devoir et quelque chose de plus les enchaine à leur poste. Vernier The New Creation Gunners in Sevastopol. A sense of duty and something more binds them to their post. 16. Manière d'entrainer les Cosaques. Daumier Manner of training the Cossacks. 17. Oursikoff!.trouvez-vous cela ressemblant. Non Sire!. À la bonne heure.je vous aurais envoyé en Sibérie si vous m'aviez reconnu.toutes ces mauvaises charges du CHARIVARI n'empêchent pas que je ne sois toujours le plus bel homme de mon empire!. Oui Sire!. Daumier Oursikoff!.do you find that similar. No Sire!. Good luck.I would have sent you to Siberia if you had recognized me.all these bad charges from the CHARIVARI do not prevent I am still not the handsomest man in my empire!. Yes Sire!. 18. Devant Kalafat. Une fois.deux fois.trois fois!.je vous somme de mettre bas les armes.faites bien attention je ne vous le repeterai plus.c'est bien decide vous ne voulez pas vous render.eh! bien alors je m'en vais!. Vernier In front of Kalafat. Once.twice.three times!.I summon you to lay down your arms.be careful I won't repeat it to you again.it's decided you don't want to surrender.eh! well then I'm leaving!. 19. À Buckarest: C'est ici.entrez.on va vous payer!. Daumier To Buckarest: It's here.come in.we'll pay you!. 20. Distribution de vivres un jour de gala. Daumier Distribution of food on a gala day. 21. Allons camarade.faut trinquer avec les amis.vous pouvez avaler ça sans scrupule ça n'est pas du vin!. Vernier Come on comrade. you have to toast with friends. you can swallow that without scruple it's not wine!. 22. En Valachie. Confiscation Générale des faux pioches et rateaux at autres instrumens aratoires propres à défricher le dos des Cosaques. Daumier In Wallachia. General confiscation of scythes pickaxes and rakes and other plowing instruments suitable for clearing the backs of Cossacks. 23. L'Empereur de Russie témoignant toute sa satisfaction aux autorités militaires de Cronstad après l'inspection des travaux de défense. Cham The Emperor of Russia expressing his satisfaction to the military authorities of Kronstad after the inspection of the defense works. 24. Tenant aussi à consulter sa petite table pour savoir s'il sera définitivement vainqueur. Daumier Also wanting to consult his little table to find out if he will definitely be the winner. 25. Mais Colonel au commandement FIXE vos hommes regardant en arrière!. Ne faites pas attention mon Général c'est une habitude qu'ils ont contractée en Valachie. Vernier But Colonel at the FIXED command your men looking back!. Don't mind General it's a habit they picked up in Wallachia. 26. Officier russe suivi de son brosseur. Cham Russian officer followed by his brusher. 27. Le Roi Othon se fesant mal en voulant manger de la brioche faite par l'Empereur de Russie. Cham King Othon hurting himself trying to eat brioche made by the Emperor of Russia. 28. Ce que les Russes appellant un Mouvement Stratégique. Daumier What the Russians call a Strategic Movement. 29. L'Escamoteur Manquant Son Tour Faute D'Un Compère: Si une personne de la société veut bien m'honorer un instant de sa confiance je commence immédiatement mon tour J'escamote le Sultan!.personne n'accepte.le tour est enfoncé!. Cham The Conjurer Missing His Turn For Lack Of A Compère: If a person from society wants to honor me for a moment with his confidence I immediately begin my turn I conjure the Sultan!.nobody accepts. the turn is down!. 30. L'Empereur Nicolas finissant par en pincer un qui moins fin que les autres s'est laisse prendre au piége. Cham The Emperor Nicolas ended up pinching one who less fine than the others let himself be trapped. 31. À Sébastopol. C'est insupportable.Ces vaisseaux sont toujours.pas moyen d'aller un peu flâner dans la mer noire!.nous n'y serions pas blancs!. Daumier In Sevastopol. It's unbearable.These ships are still.no way to go and stroll a little in the black sea!.we wouldn't be white there!. 32. La Crèce Mise en Ébullition. C'est très imprudent ce que vous faites là car sans parler des taches Ce qui vous inquiete peu il pourrait bien finir par vous en cuire!. Vernier The Boiling Crib. It's very reckless what you're doing there because not to mention the stains which doesn't worry you much he could end up cooking you!. 33. Comment ils emportent mon argent.et ils ne s'insurgent pas mieux que cela.allons j'ai fait une fichue opératiou!. Daumier What they're taking my money.and they don't rise up any better than that.come on I've had a bloody operation!. 34. Bertrand voila des gaillards qui ont toutes mes sympathies. Ils partent pour une expedition aventureuse le moment est venu de leur donner nos bénédictions les plus orthodoxes!. Daumier Bertrand here are some fellows who have all my sympathies. They are leaving for an adventurous expedition the time has come to give them our most orthodox blessings!. 35. Enthousiasme Russe. Enrolés volontaires rejoignant leurs regiments. Daumier Russian enthusiasm. Volunteers joining their regiments. 36. Je vous demande pardon si je ne peux rien vous offrir pour vous raffraîchir mais les Cosaques ne font que de nous quitter et voilá dans quelle position ils nous ont laisse!!. Vernier I beg your pardon if I can't offer you anything to refresh you but the Cossacks are just leaving us and that's the position they left us in!!. 37. Un inspecteur general russe. Daumier A Russian Inspector General. 38. À St. Pétersbourg. Le Grand Duc Amiral en chef mettant en requisition tous les banquets de St. Petersbourg pour la composition de sa flotte à rames. Cham In St. Petersburg. The Grand Duke Admiral-in-Chief requisitioning all the banquets of St. Petersburg for the composition of his rowing fleet. 39. Un chef de sauvage se préparant à scalper un Parlementaire. Cham A savage chief preparing to scalp a Parliamentarian. 40. Excellente charge militaire faite à l'Empereur de Russie au moment oû il croyait s'asseoir bien tranquillement sure le Divan. Cham Excellent military charge made to. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari...et chez Martinet, 1859 unknown
ref. 05269Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari.et chez Martinet 1859. The Moroccan Sultan Monsieur Prudhomme and the Chinese Emperor Thirty Fine Humorous Lithographs by Honoré Daumier Bound together with Les Cosaques Pour Rire Forty fine lithographs by Daumier Cham & Vernier DAUMIER Honoré. Album des Charges du Jour. 30 Lithographies par H. Daumier. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari.et chez Martinet 1859-60. First edition. Oblong folio 10 3/8 x 13 5/16 inches; 264 x 338 mm. Lithographed pictorial title-page and thirty superb plates by Daumier lithographed by Destouches. This scarce album contains thirty fine and humorous lithographs by Daumier which had previously appeared in the Le Charivari in the series: Actualités En Chine Croquis de Chasse Ces Bons Parisiens and Emotions Nautiques. The three figures featured on the front cover and the title-page are: the Moroccan sultan Mr. Prudhomme a stereotypical bourgeois and the Chinese emperor. OCLC locates just two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide New York Public Library NY USA & The Morgan Library & Museum NY USA. and CHAM DAUMIER & Charles VERNIER. Les Cosaques Pour Rire. Album de Quarante Caricatures. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari 1853-54. First edition. Oblong folio 10 3/8 x 13 5/16 inches; 264 x 338 mm. Original lithographed yellow wrapper title-page and forty superb plates by Daumier 18 Cham 11 and Vernier 11 all lithographed by Destouches. This scarce album contains forty amusing lithographs by Daumier Cham and Vernier "Les Cosaques Pour Rire" or "The Cossacks in Jest" illustrates caricatures from the Crimean War 1853-1856. Daumier humorously depicts Russian military command soldiers and the czar pertaining to either the Crimean War or to the Cossacks. OCLC locates just two copies of this work in libraries and institutions worldwide Brown University RI USA & The Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Two works bound together in one volume. The plates have been expertly washed. Both of the original front wrappers are present. Modern tree calf front cover lettered in gilt "Album Comique" smooth spine lettered in gilt "Daumier". Cockerel style endpapers. The Plates: Album des Charges du Jour 1. - Dire que nous v'la Parisiens!. Unbelievable. we are Parisians now too! DR #3235; Actualités 2. Mr. Prudhomme - Mon fils rappelle toi ce jour mémorable où tu as vu démolir à jamais le mur d'octroi. rappelle-toi que tôt ou tard la philosophie produit de la raison humaine; renversera de même les barrières des préjugés sociaux!. Le Petit Adolphe- Oui papa!. mais dis donc. papa . pourquoi qu'on les reconstruit un peu plus loin. Mr. Prudhomme - My son remember that memorable day when you saw the wall of the grant being demolished forever . remember that sooner or later philosophy product of human reason; will also reverse the barriers of social prejudice! . Little Adolphe- Yes dad! . but say so . dad . why do we rebuild them a little further . DR #10945; Actualités 141 3. Le Diamant Magnétiseur. Nouveau divertissement des soirées. - ou manière de s'amuser et de se faire loucher en société sans se fâcher. The Diamond Hypnotist. A new pastime at evening parties - or how to have fun and get someone to squint without getting into trouble. DR #3227; Actualités 134 4. Une Application Utile du Diamant Magnétiseur. - Ma femme est bien magnétisée!. je peux filer tranquillement pour le bal de l'opéra. dors bien bobonne!. Practical Application for a Diamond Hypnotist. My wife is hypnotized. now I can quietly leave for the opera ball. sleep well my dear! DR #3230; Actualités 140 5. Toujours les merveilles du diamant magnétiseur. - ou manière en société de faire prendre aux dames des poses non moins fatigantes que disgracieuses. More marvels from the diamond hypnotist. Or how to make the ladies pose in society in exhausting and not very gracious positions. DR #3228; Actualités 137 6. - Mon ami. viens donc voir ces jolis diamants!. - Ne regarde pas cela. imprudente!. ça te ferait loucher!!. - My dear come and have a look at these beautiful diamonds! - Don't even look at them you careless woman. they'll make you cross-eyed! DR #3229; Actualités 138 7. La Chiromancie Nouveau Passe Temps Des Bons Parisiens. - Adélaïde. j'ai beau chercher. je ne me trouve pas la petite ligne qui annonce une longue vie. mon Dieu!. dois-je donc mourir à la fleur de l'âge!. Palmistry New Parisian Pastime. - Adelaide. no matter how intensely I am searching I simply cannot find the line for long life. oh my God must I die in the prime of my days! DR #3240; Actualités 142 8. - Ah! Théophile. j'en apprends de belles sur ton compte. d'après le livre de Mr. Desbarolles je vois que tu as dans la main la ligne du libertinage!. - Ah!. bah. - Ah Théophile what ghastly things I am reading about you. According to the book by Mr. Desbarolles I can tell that you have in your palm the lines of a libertinage!. - Oh well. DR #3241; Ces Bons Parisiens 1 9. L'empereur du maroc consultant le celèbre sorcier desbarolles. - Voici une petite ligne qui m'indique que vous êtes destiné à recevoir une grande raclée!. The Emperor of Morocco in consultation with the Famous Magician Desbarolles. - This small line here indicates to me that you are going to get a royal thrashing! DR #3225 10. À Tanger - Sublime Majesté! . . . . . voici les Espagnols qui arrivent . . . . . je crois aller au devant de vos désirs afin de leur inspirer du respect . de déployer votre auguste parasol ! . - Laisse-moi donc tranquille Belboul avec mon parasol . . . . en ce moment-ci j'aimerais mieux avoir un Pare-à-balle ! . . . . . . In Tangiers. - Sublime Majesty. the Spanish are coming. in order to frighten them off I took the liberty to fully open your umbrella as a sign of your greatness! - Leave me alone with your umbrella Belboul. I would rather like to have an umbrella protecting me from their bullets. DR #3223 11. Le Cid se mettant aussi en campagne pour aller combattre les Maures. El Cid also takes to the field to fight against the Moors. DR #3233 12. Combat singulier entre le Cid et l'Empereur du Maroc. A unusual battle between El Cid and the emperor of Morocco. DR #3234 13. Un parasol dans une position difficile. An umbrella in a difficult position. DR #3224 14. - Voilà un vent qui va joliment contrarier le débarquement des Espagnols!. - Oui. mais c'est aussi un bien fichu temps pour mon parasol . - This wind will give the Spanish a hard time when disembarking. - Sure but look at what it is doing at my umbrella! DR #3226 15. - Dire que c'est là ce que les Français appellent des chinois!. Strange. this is what the French call "Chinois". DR #3120 16. - Ils vont être bien attrapés ces européens!. ils ont des canons qui sont terribles parce qu'ils sont rayés moi j'ai eu l'excellente idée de faire rayer tous mes soldats!. These Europeans will be quite surprised. they are using "rifled cannons" . thus I had the clever idea to add "rifles" stripes to the uniforms of my soldiers. DR #3118 17. Patrouille chinoise en reconnaissance. Chinese reconnaissance unit in action. DR #3117 18. - Tiens regarde cette caisse. elle renferme les envoyés Américains qui se rendent à Pékin!. - On dirait que cette voiture contient des animaux curieux. - Ma foi! s'ils sont curieux. tant pis pour eux car ils ne voient pas beaucoup le pays qu'ils traversent! - Look at that box - it contains the American envoys on the way to Peking! - Anyone would say it was a coach full of curious animals. - Well if they are curious so much the worse for them for they can't see much of the country they are travelling through. DR #3114 19. Arrivée à Pékin des ambassadeurs Américains. Arrival of the American Ambassador in Beijing. DR #3115 20. L'envoyé américain obtenant une audience de l'Empereur de la Chine. The Emperor of China receives the American Ambassador. DR #3116 21. - Tchinn-tchinn. tu m'apportes une bonne nouvelle!. je t'accorde l'insigne honneur de baiser l'auguste poussière de mes augustes souliers!. Tchinn Tchinn. you are bringing me good news! As a special sign of grace I will allow you to kiss the sublime dust of my sublime shoes! DR #3119 22. La Chine se civilisant. - Voyons. attention!. voici la théorie européenne. les yeux à quinze pas de distance et que le pied qui est à terre vienne rejoindre vivement celui qui est en l'air. China on its way to become civilized. Attention!. this is European theory now. the eyes must look fifteen feet ahead. . the foot on the ground must quickly join the one in the air. DR #3124 23. Fonctionnaires chinois veillant au salut de l'empire ! . Chinese civil servants diligently guarding over the welfare of the nation. DR #3123 24. -Tenez je viens de tuer un magnifique coq de bruyère!. -Mais malheureux!. c'est le coq Brahma de la ferme voisine. un coq qui vous coûtera peut-être plus de trente francs. sans compter les coups de fourche!. - Look! I just killed this magnificent grouse! . - Poor you! That is the rooster of the farm next door. That cock will cost you more than thirty francs not counting the pitchfork jabs! DR #3216 25. - Eh! bien. as-tu l'intention de rester là . - Non certes!. je t'attendais pour que tu me transportes sur ton dos jusqu'au village. - Merci à une lieue et demie d'ici!!. es-tu fou. - Allons!. voyons mon ami. fais comme si tu avais tué un chevreuil et que tu sois obligé de le rapporter chez toi!. - What about it. are you planning to stay here all day - Surely not. I thought you were going to carry me to the next village! - You must be joking. one and a half leagues. you must be crazy! - Oh come on. just pretend I were a stag you shot you would have had to carry him too. DR #3217 26. - Eh! bien. allons-nous continuer notre chasse malgré le vilain temps . . . . . - Non ! du tout . . . . . il pleut . . . . le gibier craint autant la pluie que nous . . . . il ne pourra manquer de venir se mettre à l'abri dans cette chaumière et nous allons en prendre beaucoup ! . . . . . . - Now what Are we going to continue hunting during the rain - Not at all! The animals are just as afraid of the rain as we are. They might not be able to find this shelter and we would end up losing too many of them! DR #3215 27. Mr. Prudhomme. - Comment . . . flots impudents ! . . . . . vous ne savez donc pas qui vous portez en ce moment que vous vous montrez si hardis à mon égard . . . . mer audacieuse! . . . apprends que comme Xerxès je pourrais te faire fouetter ! . . . . . Mme. Prudhomme Toute tremblante. - Oh! . . . mon ami . . . . . je t'en supplie ! . . . . ne lui dis pas d'insolences tu la mettrais en colère et elle serait capable de nous engloutir! . . . . . Mr. Prudhomme: - Obnoxious waves. don't you know whom you are carrying in this moment. oh audacious. know I shall like Xerxes whip you terribly. Mme Prudhomme: shivering of fear - Pray my dear friend do not offend the sea any longer. you might wake its fury and it might devour us completely! DR #3218 28. Les Eunuques Réformés par le Bey de Tunis. - Qu'allons-nous devenir. nous voilà mis à pied!. - Nous n'avons plus qu'à nous faire cochers de Constantinople!. Eunuchs reformed by the Bey of Tunis. - What's going to become of us. we have been fired. - The only thing we can do is go to Constantinople and become coachmen. DR #3237 29. Le nouveau costume des cochers turcs à Constantinople - Ni hommes ni femmes. tous eunuques!. Extrait de la nouvelle ordonnance. The new uniform of the Turkish coachmen in Constantinople. neither male nor female. all eunuchs. from the new ordinances. DR #3238 30. Une position difficile. - Tiraillé entre la civilisation et le parti rétograde. A difficult position. Torn between civilization and the conservative party. DR #3221 The Plates: Les Cosaques Pour Rire 1. Comme quoi la chasse ouvrira cette année bien avant le mois de Septembre. Cham Like what the hunt will open this year well before September. 2. Ayant eu l'imprudence de se lancer à toute Vitesse sur la route de St. Petersbourg à Constantinople. Cham Having had the imprudence to launch at full speed on the road from St. Petersburg to Constantinople. 3. Les soldats les mieux disciplines du monde. Daumier The best disciplined soldiers in the world. 4. Les Boyards réduits à cultivar eux-mêmes leurs terres par suite de l'enrôlement de leurs derniers paysans. Daumier The Boyars reduced to cultivating their land themselves following the enlistment of their last peasants. 5. Mes amis n'ayez pas peur je n'oublierai pas mon ancient état.j'vas tanner la peau aux Cosaques.travailler dans du vrai cuir de Russie quelle chance! Vernier My friends don't be afraid I won't forget my former state.I'm going to tan the skin of the Cossacks.working in real leather from Russia what luck! 6. l'Amiral Menschikoff en tournée d'inspection. Daumier Admiral Menschikoff on an inspection tour. 7. Le Faisceau. Il est solide je t'en préviens n'y touche pas. Vernier The beam. It's solid I warn you don't touch it. 8. Enrôlemens Volontaires en Russie. Pas tant de zèle!.il est inutile de vous bousculer comme ça pour signer.chacun son tour mes braves!. Vernier Voluntary enlistments in Russia. Not so zealous!.it is useless to rush you like that to sign.each in turn my braves!. 9. C'est drôle tout d'même!.dire qu'on ne pas la même langue et qu'on s'entend à merveille!. Vernier It's funny all the same! . to say that we don't speak the same language and that we get along wonderfully! 10. À Odessa. Bourgeois.je viens de vous donner ces torches avec la manière de vous en server.le premier d'enter vous qui ne mettra pas le feu à sa maison au premier signal aura affaire à moi.je ne vous dis que ça!. Vernier In Odessa. Bourgeois.I have just given you these torches with the way to use them.the first of you who does not set fire to his house at the first signal will have to deal with me.I am only telling you that!. . 11. Enflammant Le Courage De Ses Cosaques. Il sera distribué aux plus braves des chandelles d'honneur! Daumier Igniting the Courage of His Cossacks. It will be distributed to the bravest candles of honor! 12. Commençant à s'apercevoir qu on va le faire danser à grand orchestre et qu'il aura pas mal de violons à payer. Cham Beginning to realize that we are going to make him dance with a big orchestra and that he will have a lot of violins to pay for. 13. Soldats russes se préparant par le jeûne et l'abstinence à monter à l'assaut de Silistrie. Daumier Russian soldiers preparing by fasting and abstinence to mount the assault on Silistrie. 14. Un terrible cauchemar. Daumier A terrible nightmare. 15. Les Artilleurs de Nouvelle Création à Sébastopol. Le sentiment du devoir et quelque chose de plus les enchaine à leur poste. Vernier The New Creation Gunners in Sevastopol. A sense of duty and something more binds them to their post. 16. Manière d'entrainer les Cosaques. Daumier Manner of training the Cossacks. 17. Oursikoff!.trouvez-vous cela ressemblant. Non Sire!. À la bonne heure.je vous aurais envoyé en Sibérie si vous m'aviez reconnu.toutes ces mauvaises charges du CHARIVARI n'empêchent pas que je ne sois toujours le plus bel homme de mon empire!. Oui Sire!. Daumier Oursikoff!.do you find that similar. No Sire!. Good luck.I would have sent you to Siberia if you had recognized me.all these bad charges from the CHARIVARI do not prevent I am still not the handsomest man in my empire!. Yes Sire!. 18. Devant Kalafat. Une fois.deux fois.trois fois!.je vous somme de mettre bas les armes.faites bien attention je ne vous le repeterai plus.c'est bien decide vous ne voulez pas vous render.eh! bien alors je m'en vais!. Vernier In front of Kalafat. Once.twice.three times!.I summon you to lay down your arms.be careful I won't repeat it to you again.it's decided you don't want to surrender.eh! well then I'm leaving!. 19. À Buckarest: C'est ici.entrez.on va vous payer!. Daumier To Buckarest: It's here.come in.we'll pay you!. 20. Distribution de vivres un jour de gala. Daumier Distribution of food on a gala day. 21. Allons camarade.faut trinquer avec les amis.vous pouvez avaler ça sans scrupule ça n'est pas du vin!. Vernier Come on comrade. you have to toast with friends. you can swallow that without scruple it's not wine!. 22. En Valachie. Confiscation Générale des faux pioches et rateaux at autres instrumens aratoires propres à défricher le dos des Cosaques. Daumier In Wallachia. General confiscation of scythes pickaxes and rakes and other plowing instruments suitable for clearing the backs of Cossacks. 23. L'Empereur de Russie témoignant toute sa satisfaction aux autorités militaires de Cronstad après l'inspection des travaux de défense. Cham The Emperor of Russia expressing his satisfaction to the military authorities of Kronstad after the inspection of the defense works. 24. Tenant aussi à consulter sa petite table pour savoir s'il sera définitivement vainqueur. Daumier Also wanting to consult his little table to find out if he will definitely be the winner. 25. Mais Colonel au commandement FIXE vos hommes regardant en arrière!. Ne faites pas attention mon Général c'est une habitude qu'ils ont contractée en Valachie. Vernier But Colonel at the FIXED command your men looking back!. Don't mind General it's a habit they picked up in Wallachia. 26. Officier russe suivi de son brosseur. Cham Russian officer followed by his brusher. 27. Le Roi Othon se fesant mal en voulant manger de la brioche faite par l'Empereur de Russie. Cham King Othon hurting himself trying to eat brioche made by the Emperor of Russia. 28. Ce que les Russes appellant un Mouvement Stratégique. Daumier What the Russians call a Strategic Movement. 29. L'Escamoteur Manquant Son Tour Faute D'Un Compère: Si une personne de la société veut bien m'honorer un instant de sa confiance je commence immédiatement mon tour J'escamote le Sultan!.personne n'accepte.le tour est enfoncé!. Cham The Conjurer Missing His Turn For Lack Of A Compère: If a person from society wants to honor me for a moment with his confidence I immediately begin my turn I conjure the Sultan!.nobody accepts. the turn is down!. 30. L'Empereur Nicolas finissant par en pincer un qui moins fin que les autres s'est laisse prendre au piége. Cham The Emperor Nicolas ended up pinching one who less fine than the others let himself be trapped. 31. À Sébastopol. C'est insupportable.Ces vaisseaux sont toujours.pas moyen d'aller un peu flâner dans la mer noire!.nous n'y serions pas blancs!. Daumier In Sevastopol. It's unbearable.These ships are still.no way to go and stroll a little in the black sea!.we wouldn't be white there!. 32. La Crèce Mise en Ébullition. C'est très imprudent ce que vous faites là car sans parler des taches Ce qui vous inquiete peu il pourrait bien finir par vous en cuire!. Vernier The Boiling Crib. It's very reckless what you're doing there because not to mention the stains which doesn't worry you much he could end up cooking you!. 33. Comment ils emportent mon argent.et ils ne s'insurgent pas mieux que cela.allons j'ai fait une fichue opératiou!. Daumier What they're taking my money.and they don't rise up any better than that.come on I've had a bloody operation!. 34. Bertrand voila des gaillards qui ont toutes mes sympathies. Ils partent pour une expedition aventureuse le moment est venu de leur donner nos bénédictions les plus orthodoxes!. Daumier Bertrand here are some fellows who have all my sympathies. They are leaving for an adventurous expedition the time has come to give them our most orthodox blessings!. 35. Enthousiasme Russe. Enrolés volontaires rejoignant leurs regiments. Daumier Russian enthusiasm. Volunteers joining their regiments. 36. Je vous demande pardon si je ne peux rien vous offrir pour vous raffraîchir mais les Cosaques ne font que de nous quitter et voilá dans quelle position ils nous ont laisse!!. Vernier I beg your pardon if I can't offer you anything to refresh you but the Cossacks are just leaving us and that's the position they left us in!!. 37. Un inspecteur general russe. Daumier A Russian Inspector General. 38. À St. Pétersbourg. Le Grand Duc Amiral en chef mettant en requisition tous les banquets de St. Petersbourg pour la composition de sa flotte à rames. Cham In St. Petersburg. The Grand Duke Admiral-in-Chief requisitioning all the banquets of St. Petersburg for the composition of his rowing fleet. 39. Un chef de sauvage se préparant à scalper un Parlementaire. Cham A savage chief preparing to scalp a Parliamentarian. 40. Excellente charge militaire faite à l'Empereur de Russie au moment oû il croyait s'asseoir bien tranquillement sure le Divan. Cham Excellent military charge made to. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari...et chez Martinet, 1859 unknown books
ref. 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
ref. 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 books
