Un jeune homme à la Mode - A fashionable Youth, BAL2013.32, 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. 7cm width: 26cm description: colored print marks, inscriptions, hallmarks: title of the work - under the image: a young man in fashion. A fashionable youth author inscription - below the image on the right: senefelder lith. Inscription concerning the author - under the image on the left: henry monnier watermark - "w" iconographic description: an elegant young man, a dandy, holding his cane on his shoulder. His pants and jacket are fitted to give him a slim waist. His hair is curly, he wears pointy boots. In the background, a couple and another dandy in fashionable outfits. 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 mores of their time often inspired the two artists in parallel on numerous subjects as we can see in the following extract: "her dress and her appearance rivaled those of the most famous dandies. Coralie loved, like all fanatics, to adorn her idol; she ruined herself to give her dear poet this elegant furniture of the elegant which he had so desired during his first walk at the tuileries. Lucien then had marvelous canes, a charming lorgnette, diamond buttons, rings for his morning ties, signet rings, finally, magnificent waistcoats in sufficient number to match the colors of his outfit. He soon passed as a dandy. The day he went at the invitation of the german diplomat, his metamorphosis excited a sort of suppressed envy in the young people who were there, and who held the upper hand in the kingdom of fashion. Marsay, vandenesse, ajuda-pinto, maxime de trailles, rastignac, the duke of maufrigneuse, beaudenord, manerville, etc. " [excerpt from lost illusions, by honoré de balzac] themes / subjects / places represented: social subject, morals, dandy, men's fashion mode of acquisition: purchase institution: maison de balzac inventory number: bal2013. 32. Date: En 1827.