Les Jolies Femmes de Paris

BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de

Verlag: Paris: Chez Aubert, 1846

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Thirty-Nine (of Forty) Superb Hand Colored Lithographs by Charles-Édouard de Baeumont Depicting The Pretty Women of Paris BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de. Les Jolies Femmes de Paris. [The Pretty Women of Paris]. Paris: Chez Aubert, [1846]. Folio (13 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches; 337 x 2548 mm.). Thirty-nine (of forty) superb hand colored lithographs all heightened with gum arabic. (missing plate #21). One leaf of advertisement (verso blank) bound in at end. Two plates (nos. 2, & 14) with slight surface loss due to adhesion. Otherwise a remarkably clean and brightly colored example of this extremely rare title. Publisher's diaper-grain purple cloth, front cover lettered in gilt, spine slightly faded and a little worn at top. OCLC lists just three copies in libraries and institutions worldwide - none of them complete: Bibliotheque Geneve, Switzerland (20 plates only); Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, France (32 plates only); Bibliothek der Universitat der Kunste, Germany (20 plates only). Charles-Édouard de Beaumont (1821-1888) was one of the great caricaturists and lithographers that illustrated the beautiful pages of Charivari and other fashionable image journals. He produced all the illustrations for the picturesque Revue, Le Diable Amoureux (The Devil in Love) and many of the illustrations for the 1844 edition of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris. Often criticized for drawing too much inspiration from Paul Gavarni, he published between 1228 and 1273 lithographs in the years 1842 to 1866. In 1879 he co-founded the Societe d'Aquarellistes Francais in 1879, where he exhibited several watercolors. De Beaumont's satirical images of gender relations are not always as progressive as this description of the series might suggest. In 1848, after Au Bal Masqué, de Beaumont stopped depicting women in acceptable female roles and instead reconnected them to the role of prostitute. He would also reverse their gender roles to support an antifeminist backlash prompted by a conservative political climate. Out of this same school of thought, de Beaumont authored a book titled The Sword and Womankind that attributes a range of historical calamities to the deeds of wayward women. For example, depictions of women castrating men and enacting other violent acts spread from the belief that women were responsible for the failure of the 1848 revolution. Beraldi I, 113; Colas, 257; Hiler, p. 73; Lipperheide, 3565; Not in Bobins; Not in Ray. The Plates: 1. Quelle chance.dire que je n'aurai eu une petite voiture à mes ordres que pendant un mois de ma vie, et ça tombe juste en fèvrier qui n'a que vingt huit jours! What luck.to say that I will only have had a small car under my orders for one month of my life, and that just happened in February, which is only twenty-eight days old! 2. Un monsieur qui cause sérieusement. A gentleman who talks seriously. 3. Etude sérieuse et au piano de la partition du Larifla, fla, fla. Serious study and at the piano of the score of Larifla, fla, fla. 4. Envoyée extraordinaire d'un Prince du nord, remise d'une missive et de plusieurs fourrures, prèsens diplomatiques. Envoy extraordinary from a Prince of the North, delivery of a missive and several furs, diplomatic presents. 5. Moi je n'aimerais que cette rivière en diamans. Diable.voila des gouts peu modestes.filons! Me, I would only like this diamond river. Devil. here are not very modest tastes. let's go! 6. Comment.Céline qui lit un livre de morale! Eh! mon dieu.il faut bien connaitre un peu de tout! How. Céline reading a moral book! Hey! my god. you have to know a bit of everything! 7. (Le monsieur lisant.) "Mon cher monsieur Bienaimé, pour solder un petit restant de compte avec ma blanchisseuse, j'aurais besoin ce matin de conq cent francs, si vous pouvez remettre cette bagatelle à Florine ma femme de chambre en un billet de la banque, vous l'obligerez." (The gentleman reading.) "My dear Monsieur Beloved, to settle a little remaining account with my laundress, I would need five hun. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 05274

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Titel: Les Jolies Femmes de Paris

Verlag: Paris: Chez Aubert, 1846

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