Madame est encore sortie - Gone out a shopping Sir. BAL2013.34, 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: 26cm description: colored print marks, inscriptions, hallmarks: title of the work - under the image: madame est encor exit / g one out a shopping sir. Author inscription - below the image on the right: senefelder lith. Inscription concerning the author - under the image on the left: henry monnier watermark - "jw" iconographic description: a bourgeois wearing his overweight figure is welcomed into a simple interior by a maid who hides from him a top hat which she holds behind her back and a pair of boots hidden by a screen. 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 morals of their time often inspired the two artists in parallel on numerous subjects as we can see in the following extract: "so, the masked men are jealous husbands who come to spy on their wives, or husbands in good fortune who do not want to be spied on by them, two equally mockable situations. However, the young man was followed, without him knowing it, by a murderous mask, big and short, rolling on itself like a barrel. For all a regular at the opera, this domino betrayed an administrator, a stockbroker, a banker, a notary, any bourgeois in suspicion of his unfaithful person. Indeed, in very high society, no one runs after humiliating testimonies. Themes / subjects / places represented: social subject, morals, top hat, boot, servant - maid, domestic interior, cuckold mode of acquisition: purchase institution: maison de balzac inventory number: bal2013. 34. Date: En 1827.