Avec beaucoup de plaisir, Monsieur , BAL98-64b, Henry Monnier, 1825

Author(s): monnier, henry bonaventure (paris, 07–06–1799 - paris, 03–01–1877 — 3–6–1877), designer villain, françois (buire-au-bois, in 1790 - in 1852), designer-lithographer gihaut frères, publisher other title: general exploitation of the fashions and ridiculousness of paris and london (series title) production date: 1825 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: 34. 1cm width: 23. 3cm dimensions - image: height: 21. 4cm width: 14cm description: colored print marks, inscriptions, hallmarks: number - above the image on the right: n°1 caption - below the image: with great pleasure, sir! inscription concerning the author - under the image on the left: henry monnier inscription concerning the author - under the image on the right: lith de villain, rue de sèvres, n°23 registration concerning the test - under the image on the right: chez gihaut frères iconographic description: a young girl, slender and awkward, adorned with jewelry and ribbons, begins a curtsy before a dance. 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: "if your meeting takes place at a ball or in an evening, you will collect the affected or natural honey of her cunning voice; you will be delighted by her empty words, but to which she will know how to communicate the value of thought through an inimitable maneuver. -- to be a proper woman, is it not necessary to have wit, asked the polish count. " [another study of a woman, by honoré de balzac] themes / subjects / places represented: subject of society, morals, ball institution: maison de balzac inventory number: bal98-64b. Date: 1825.