La Bacchante, BAL2007.26, En 1828

Author(s): monnier, henry bonaventure (paris, 07–06–1799 - paris, 03–01–1877 — 3–6–1877), designer other title: the songs of béranger (title of the series) production date: in 1828 dating in century: 19th century type(s) of object(s): graphic arts, print name(s): print materials and techniques: laid paper, watercolor dimensions - artwork: height: 15. 2cm width: 22. 5cm dimensions - album: height: 15. 7cm width: 24cm description: colored engraving. Marks, inscriptions, hallmarks: title of the work - under the image: the bacchante. Inscription concerning the author - under the image on the left: henry monnier author inscription - under the image on the right: lith. Rue nd des victoires n°16 iconographic description: a couple of party animals are sprawled on a sofa in a tidy room furnished with a breakfast table and a bookcase. The young woman, very low-cut, holds out a champagne flute. The man, legs apart, goes to toast with her. Illustration of the words of béranger's song "la bacchante" of which here is an extract: "dear lover, i give in to your desires: champagne intoxicates julie. Let us invent, if possible, pleasures; loves exhaust madness. Pour me this joyful poison; but above all drink to your mistress: i would blush with my intoxication, if you retained your reason. " béranger (1780-1857) is a french singer-songwriter prolific and extremely popular to whom balzac refers in several of his novels. "this worthy gentleman particularly hated priests, he was part of this large herd of simpletons who subscribed to the constitutionnel, and was very concerned about the refusal of burials. He adored voltaire, although his preferences were for piron, vadé, collé. Naturally he admired béranger, whom he ingeniously called the high priest of lisette's religion. His daughters, madame camusot and madame protez, his two sons, would be, according to a popular expression, fallen from their height, if someone had explained to them what their father meant by: singing about mother godichon!” [excerpt from a beginning in life, by honoré de balzac] themes / subjects / places represented: literary scene, singer - lyric artist, beggar mode of acquisition: purchase institution: maison de balzac inventory number: bal2007. 26. Date: En 1828.