Chaque âge a ses plaisirs - Every age has its pleasures, BAL2013.26, 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: every age has its pleasures / every age has its pleasures. Author inscription - below the image on the right: senefelder lith. Inscription concerning the author - under the image on the left: henry monnier iconographic description: an old man bundled up in his frock coat is sitting at the table. He is holding two knives and is about to cut a piece of meat. Also on the small table are a bottle, a carafe and a fruit platter. 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: "the dependence in which their position placed the moreaus was therefore skillfully concealed; and they had all the more the air of rich people managing for their pleasure the property of a friend, that neither the count nor the countess came to rebuff their pretensions; then, the concessions granted by monsieur de sérisy allowed them to live in this abundance, the luxury of the countryside thus, dairy, eggs, poultry, game, fruits, fodder, flowers, wood, vegetables, the manager and his wife harvested everything in profusion and only bought the butcher's meat, the wines and the colonial foodstuffs required by their princely life. Finally, for several years, moreau had been paying his butcher with pigs from his farmyard. Keeping what is necessary for its consumption. " [excerpt from a beginning in life, by honoré de balzac] themes / subjects / places represented: social subject, morals, meal, meat, bottle, fruit, knife mode of acquisition: purchase institution: maison de balzac inventory number: bal2013. 26. Date: En 1827.