Attelier de Couture - Gown maker's work-Room, BAL2013.30, En 1827

Author(s): monnier, henry bonaventure (paris, 07–06–1799 - paris, 03–01–1877 — 3–6–1877), designer senefelder et cie, designer-lithographer production date: in 1827 dating in century: 19th century type(s) of object(s): graphic arts, print name(s): print materials and techniques: lithography, vellum paper, watercolor dimensions - artwork: height: 20. 5cm width: 28cm description: colored print marks, inscriptions, hallmarks: title of the work - under the image: interior of an office/the pantry author inscription - below the image on the right: senefelder lith. Inscription concerning the author - under the image on the left: henry monnier watermark - "w" iconographic description: two young men in shirts and vests are playing leapfrog while young women sit sewing. Actor, playwright and designer, henry monnier helped illustrate la comédie humaine. His engravings of administrative morals, and especially his play scenes from bureaucratic life, clearly inspired balzac for his novel la femme supérieure, renamed les employés. The same references to the customs of their time often inspired the two artists in parallel on numerous subjects as we can see in the following extract: "--now, cried goupil, you must no longer count on the inheritance. Ursule is almost seventeen years old, she is prettier than ever; travel forms youth, and the little prankster has your uncle by the right end. There are five or six packages for her to the cars per week, and the seamstresses, the milliners come here to try on her dresses and her things. So my boss is furious. Wait for ursule at the exit and look at her little neck shawl, a real cashmere worth six hundred francs. Themes / subjects / places represented: social subject, morals, young girl, grisette, sewing and needlework, game of skill mode of acquisition: purchase institution: maison de balzac inventory number: bal2013. 30. Date: En 1827.