300,000 fr d'appointements, BAL91.60, Henry Monnier

Author(s): monnier, henry bonaventure (paris, 07–06–1799 - paris, 03–01–1877 — 3–6–1877), designer bernard, charles louis (paris, 29–06–1769 - paris, 11–09–1848), designer-lithographer giraldon and bovinet, editor other title: recreation (series title) dating in century: 19th century type(s) of object(s): graphic arts, print name(s): print materials and techniques: vellum paper, watercolor, lithography dimensions - artwork: height: 23cm width: 31. 3cm dimensions - image: height: 14. 8cm width: 16cm description: colored print marks, inscriptions, hallmarks: wet stamp - t. H. : ​​monogram a m and 2 r next to each other? title of the work - above the image: recreations number - above image: pl. 8 legend - under the image: 300,000 fr. Of salaries inscription concerning the author - under the image on the right: lith de bernard. Under the image on the left: henry monnier registration concerning the test - under the image: published by giraldon bovinet, passage vivienne, 26 iconographic description: three classical dancers perform a figure. In the center, the man in tight tights jumps lightly. On her right, a dancer with a thin waist sketches pointes, to her left a second dancer with generous shapes does more assertive, although less elegant, pointes. 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: "for three years, the cantor of mother godichon had the lofty policy of keeping mademoiselle cabirolle and her mother in this small apartment, a stone's throw from the theater; then he gave, out of love for choreography, vestris as teacher to his protégé. Also, around 1820, he had the pleasure of seeing dance at florentine his first step in the ballet of a spectacle melodrama, entitled les ruins de babylone. Florentine then had sixteen springs. Some time after this beginning, father cardot had already become an old grigou for his protégé but as he had the delicacy to understand that a dancer of the théâtre de la gaîté had a certain rank to maintain, and that he increased his monthly assistance to five hundred francs per month, if he did not become an angel again; at least a friend for life, a second father. " [excerpt from a beginning in life, by honoré de balzac] themes / subjects / places represented: subject of society, morals, dancer, theater institution: maison de balzac inventory number: bal91. 60. Date: Unknown.