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. 4cm
dimensions - picture:
height: 14. 3cm
width: 15cm
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 the image on the right: pl. 36. Legend - in the image, at the bottom: this house receives fifteen to eighteen hundred pounds of candy on new year's day
inscription concerning the author - under the image on the left: henry monnier under the image on the right: lith de bernard
registration concerning the test - under the image: published by giraldon bovinet, passage vivienne, n°26. Iconographic description:
a crowd of men, women and children crowd into a small room, packages in their hands or carried on their backs. To the right of the group, a young woman is sitting on a chair. 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: "although serious and calm in business, this patriarch had the cheerfulness of our ancestors. He had to risk the table song, admit and preserve family solemnities, celebrate birthdays, grandmothers' and children's holidays, bury the yule log with ceremony; he must have liked to give new years, to make surprises and offer easter eggs; he had to believe in the obligations of sponsorship and not abandon any of the customs that colored life in the past. " [excerpt from the marriage contract, by honoré de balzac]
themes / subjects / places represented:
subject of society, morals, crowd, child
institution: maison de balzac
inventory number: bal91. 78. Date: Unknown.
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