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
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: 14cm
width: 15. 5cm
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 20
legend - in the image, at the bottom: there are very kind beings
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, 26. Iconographic description:
five friends are walking arm in arm. On the right and left, there are four grisettes dressed in different ways. In the center of young women, a man is partly disguised as a woman. Although he has kept his pants and jacket on, he has dressed himself in a lady's hat trimmed with frills, a scarf, he is holding a folded parasol and a cashmere shawl. 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: "at thirty paces, if fil-de-soie had appeared natural, a police officer, a gendarme would have recognized his game; but he equaled jacques collin in the art of making up and dressing up. At this moment, fil-de-soie, in neglect like the great actors who do not take care of their appearance that at the theater, wore a kind of hunting jacket with missing buttons, and whose bare buttonholes revealed the white of the lining, bad green slippers, nankeen pants that had become grayish, and on his head a cap without a visor through which the corners of an old beard madras, furrowed with tears and washed, peeked through. " [extract from splendors and miseries of courtesans, by honoré de balzac]
themes / subjects / places represented:
social subject, morals, costume, men's fashion, women's fashion, disguise - cross-dressing
institution: maison de balzac
inventory number: bal91. 63. Date: Unknown.
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