DAUMIER. - SILHOUETTE (La). Journal des Caricatures,... - Lot 216 - Ferri & Associés

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DAUMIER. - SILHOUETTE (La). Journal des Caricatures,... - Lot 216 - Ferri & Associés
DAUMIER. - SILHOUETTE (La). Journal des Caricatures, beaux-arts, dessins, moeurs, théâtres, etc. Paris, rue des Fossés-Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois and rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs, June 1829-January 1831. 4 parts bound in 2 vols. in-4, red half calf, spine decorated, corners, n. r. (Bound in contemporary style). EXTREMELY RARE COMPLETE COLLECTION of the 52 issues of the first French illustrated satirical newspaper. It contains 105 lithographs on white, some colored. Grandville contributed nine plates to the journal: the first two are pen-and-ink lithographs, colored; the other seven are in black (lithographs by V. Ratier). The Silhouette marks the taking of power by the new generation, born under the Empire and rid of the memory of the Revolution. It is politically hostile to the government of the Restoration. The Silhouette not only contains Honoré Daumier's first lithograph entitled Passe ton Chemin; cochon (volume III, p. 39). Daumier (3 pl.) makes his debut there, along with Monnier and Grandville, Raffet, Pigalle, Traviès, Johannot - all in their twenties. Grandville stigmatized the enemy and summarized the spirit of the newspaper in the lithograph published on August 12, 1830 under the title: Eteignons les lumières et rallumons le feu! An assembly of characters whose head is a bellows is busy around a pyre into which books by Béranger, Volney and Paul-Louis Courier are being thrown... Balzac, leader of the pack. Among the founders, we notice Emile de Girardin and Balzac. The latter published his Etude de moeurs par les gants, Philosophie de la toilette, Physiologie gastronomique and Des Artistes, among others. "Balzac often wrote about political caricaturists and assured, with a remarkable prescience, that their art was a power" (Adhémar, Honoré Daumier, p. 13). Thus, the army of laughter, which will soon storm the Louis-Philippard fortress with pears and caricature, is already gathered in this first satirical newspaper. A VERY GOOD AND PURE COPY, IN TIME-BASED CONDITION, without the title of the 4th part, (some light foxing, endpapers have been renewed). (Carteret III, 563; Vicaire VII, 500; Ray French illustrated Book n°146.) (2)
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