L'aimable voisinage. the charming neighbour, BAL2013.44, 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: the basket with two handles. Two strings to ones' bow. Author inscription - below the image on the right: senefelder lith. Inscription concerning the author - under the image on the left: henry monnier iconographic description: standing in its simple interior furnished with a chair and a table where a bottle of wine and glass are placed, a man shouts into his trumpet. 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: "--shut up, shouted topinard in a formidable voice, or i'll knock! -- you always have to tell them that, he added in a low voice to schmucke. -- here, my little one, said the porter to the usherette, here is mr. Schmucke, the friend of this poor mr. Pons, he doesn't know where to go, and he would like to come to our house; in vain did i warn him that we were not flamboyant, that we were on the sixth floor, that we only had a loft to offer him, he insisted on it, schmucke had sat down on a chair that the woman had moved for him, and the children, completely taken aback by the arrival of a stranger, had gathered in a group to engage in this in-depth, silent and soon-to-be-finished examination, which distinguishes childhood, accustomed like dogs. To sniff rather than judge. Schmucke began to look at this pretty group where there was a little girl, aged five, the one who blew the trumpet and who had such magnificent blond hair. " [excerpt from le cousin pons, by honoré de balzac] themes / subjects / places represented: subject of society, morals, trumpet, domestic interior mode of acquisition: purchase institution: maison de balzac inventory number: bal2013. 44. Date: En 1827.