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Paris Comique, Revue Amusante
by DAUMIER, Honoré; CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé); BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de; QUILLENBOIS pseudonym of Charles Marie de Sarcus
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Paris: Chez Aubert, Éditeur du Musée Philipon..., 1842. Twenty Superb Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Daumier, Cham, Beaumont & Quillenbois
[DAUMIER, Honoré & others]. Paris Comique, Revue Amusante Des Caractères, Moeurs, Modes, Folies, Ridicules, Excentricités, Niaiseries, Bêtises, Sottises, Voleries et Infamies Parisiennes. Text non politique Par MM. L. Huart, Michelant, Ch. Philipon, et autres Rédacteurs du Charivari et de la Caricature: Dessins Comiques par MM. Bouchot, Cham (de N..), Daumier, Gavarni, Grandville, et autrés artistes du Musée Philipon. Paris: Chez Aubert, Éditeur... [1844].
Folio (13 x 9 7/8 inches; 329 x 250 mm.). [iv], [160] pp. Twenty magnificent hand colored lithographs, all heightened with gum arabic.
The plates are by Honoré Daumier (10); Cham (8); Beaumont (1) & Quillenbois (1).
Contemporary (ca. 1844) quarter dark green morocco over green paper boards, front cover with gilt emblem. Spine with five raised bands tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers. An excellent example, with ten of the wonderful hand colored lithographs by Honoré Daumier.
"The house of Aubert was ingenious in marketing its products. Its lithographs...were published one by one in periodicals like Le charivari and together in suites by the same artist without letterpress. Still a third form of publication was in albums made up of lithographs by several artists with accompanying texts. These collections most commonly took the form of volumes with the generic title Paris Comique, which consisted of twenty colored lithographs accompanied by quite unrelated texts. Aubert remarked that the resulting hodgepodge had ‘a plan that is easy to follow, for it consists in not having any,' and in fact this was indeed a frugal procedure for reusing old texts and already published plates. The interest of the various volumes of Paris comique resides entirely in the lithographs they happen to contain. It can be considerable, however, since Daumier and Gavarni are the predominant artists" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 164).
The Plates:
1. DAUMIER. La Tragédie. "Que de soins m'ont couté cette tête charmante ! ....." (Phèdre.) [DR 1740]
The Tragedy. How much worries this charming face has caused me.
2. DAUMIER. La Tragédie. "Venez, dignes soutiens de la grandeur romaine." "Compagnons de César, approchez!...." (La mort de César.) [DR 1741]
The Tragedy. Come, dignified pillars of Roman grandeur... friends of Caesar, approach!
3. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. - Eh! bien monsieur, et mes trois termes..... vous me direz toujours que vos meubles en répondent!..... [DR 1624]
Tenants and Owners. Well Monsieur, and my three months rent... you are always telling me that your furniture serves as collateral.
4. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. Vois comme ils m'avaient abimé mes murailles avec leurs conduits de cheminée..... on ne devrait pas permettre aux locataires de faire du feu!..... [DR 1623]
Tenants and Owners. See how they have damaged my walls with their chimney ducts... tenants really shouldn't be allowed to have a heating.
5. CHAM. Les Fêtes Champêtres. Inconvénient de diner sur l'herbe, non loin d'une ménagerie. Jeu d'adresse sentimental et patriotique...
Country festivals. Disadvantage of dining on the grass, not far from a menagerie. Sentimental and patriotic game of skill...
6. DAUMIER. Actualités. Allant aux renseignements Politiques chez le concierge du Général Changarnier. [DR 2103]
News. The public opinion gets its information on politics from the housekeeper of general Changarnier.
7. CHAM. Actualités. Monsieur Odilon continuant à chasser et à exterminer tous les snagliers qu'il rencontre.
News. Monsieur Odilon continues to hunt and exterminate all the snagliers he encounters.
8. CHAM. Les Fêtes Champêtres. Elite de la société de Mabile, au bal de Noisy-le-Sec. Mr. le maire n'est plus content.
Country festivals. Elite of Mabile's society, at the ball at Noisy-le-Sec. Mr. Mayor is no longer happy.
9. BEAUMONT. Au Bal Masqué. Cette Petite ligne m'annonce que votre vertu va enfin trouver sa récompense...un fort marchand de papier en gros s'apprête à vous demander en mariage! J'aimerais mieux un restaurateur...je me commanderais un crâne souper tous les jours de bal!
At the masked ball. This Little Line announces to me that your virtue will finally find its reward...a strong merchant of wholesale paper is about to ask you in marriage! I'd rather have a restaurant owner...I'd order myself a skull supper every prom day!
10. CHAM. Les Politiques de Marais. Eh! Bien, et les nouvelles du Portugal?... Je suis un peu plus rassuré, les nouvelles doivent être meilleures, je remarque aujourd'hui que les marchandes d'oranges sont moins abattues...je ne vous cacherai pas qu'il y a deux jours j'étais bien effrayé, on m'avait fait une orange dix sous!...
Marsh Politics. Hey! Well, what about the news from Portugal?... I'm a little more reassured, the news must be better, I notice today that the orange sellers are less despondent...I won't hide from you that there two days later I was very frightened, they had made me an orange ten sous!...
11. CHAM. Actualités. Lecture de journaux donnant des nouvelles peu rassurantes.
News. Reading newspapers giving not very reassuring news.
12. CHAM. Actualités. Une Séance de la Commission de Surveillance. Nous constatons au procès verbal que présentement la ville de Paris est uniquement occupée de ballons!...
News. A meeting of the Supervisory Commission. We note in the minutes that currently the city of Paris is only occupied with balloons!...
13. CHAM. Actualités. Le Beau sexe voyant, grâce aux sergens de ville, les jeux de Bourse transformés en des parties de barres.
News. The fair sex seeing, thanks to the sergens de ville, the stock exchange games transformed into bar games.
14. DAUMIER. Actualités. Un nouvel Almaviva venant essayer de séduire Rosine-Véron en lui donnant une sérénade sur l'air de Vive Henri V. [DR 2110]
News. A new Almaviva trying to seduce Rosine - Véron by singing her a serenade on the tune of Vive Henry V.
15. QUILLENBOIS. Prophéties Charivariques. Les cabinets de lecture subiront des agrandissemens reclamés par le format des journaux. Le journal la semaine trouvera un abonné. Les abonnés de l'Epoque porteront un uniforme. Les porteurs du journal seront tenus de les saluer.
Charivaric prophecies. The reading cabinets will undergo enlargements demanded by the format of the newspapers. The weekly newspaper will find a subscriber. Epoch subscribers will wear a uniform. Newspaper carriers will be required to salute them.
16. CHAM. Actualités. Dègoûté de la politique, le directeur du Constitutionnel se décide à attendre désormais bien tranquillement l'arrivée du mois de Mai de l'an 1852.
News. Disgusted with politics, the director of Le Constitutionnel decided to wait quietly for the arrival of the month of May in the year 1852.
17. DAUMIER. Actualitiés. Surveillant la Commission de Surveillance. [DR 3957]
News. Supervising the supervisory commission.
18. DAUMIER. Actualitiés. Un nouveau Bélisaire. [DR 2107]
News. A new Belisarius.
19. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. Deux bons voisins. [DR 1618]
Tenants and Owners. Two good neighbors.
20. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. Locataires noctambules. [DR 1619]
Tenants and Owners. Nighttime movers.
[DAUMIER, Honoré & others]. Paris Comique, Revue Amusante Des Caractères, Moeurs, Modes, Folies, Ridicules, Excentricités, Niaiseries, Bêtises, Sottises, Voleries et Infamies Parisiennes. Text non politique Par MM. L. Huart, Michelant, Ch. Philipon, et autres Rédacteurs du Charivari et de la Caricature: Dessins Comiques par MM. Bouchot, Cham (de N..), Daumier, Gavarni, Grandville, et autrés artistes du Musée Philipon. Paris: Chez Aubert, Éditeur... [1844].
Folio (13 x 9 7/8 inches; 329 x 250 mm.). [iv], [160] pp. Twenty magnificent hand colored lithographs, all heightened with gum arabic.
The plates are by Honoré Daumier (10); Cham (8); Beaumont (1) & Quillenbois (1).
Contemporary (ca. 1844) quarter dark green morocco over green paper boards, front cover with gilt emblem. Spine with five raised bands tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers. An excellent example, with ten of the wonderful hand colored lithographs by Honoré Daumier.
"The house of Aubert was ingenious in marketing its products. Its lithographs...were published one by one in periodicals like Le charivari and together in suites by the same artist without letterpress. Still a third form of publication was in albums made up of lithographs by several artists with accompanying texts. These collections most commonly took the form of volumes with the generic title Paris Comique, which consisted of twenty colored lithographs accompanied by quite unrelated texts. Aubert remarked that the resulting hodgepodge had ‘a plan that is easy to follow, for it consists in not having any,' and in fact this was indeed a frugal procedure for reusing old texts and already published plates. The interest of the various volumes of Paris comique resides entirely in the lithographs they happen to contain. It can be considerable, however, since Daumier and Gavarni are the predominant artists" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 164).
The Plates:
1. DAUMIER. La Tragédie. "Que de soins m'ont couté cette tête charmante ! ....." (Phèdre.) [DR 1740]
The Tragedy. How much worries this charming face has caused me.
2. DAUMIER. La Tragédie. "Venez, dignes soutiens de la grandeur romaine." "Compagnons de César, approchez!...." (La mort de César.) [DR 1741]
The Tragedy. Come, dignified pillars of Roman grandeur... friends of Caesar, approach!
3. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. - Eh! bien monsieur, et mes trois termes..... vous me direz toujours que vos meubles en répondent!..... [DR 1624]
Tenants and Owners. Well Monsieur, and my three months rent... you are always telling me that your furniture serves as collateral.
4. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. Vois comme ils m'avaient abimé mes murailles avec leurs conduits de cheminée..... on ne devrait pas permettre aux locataires de faire du feu!..... [DR 1623]
Tenants and Owners. See how they have damaged my walls with their chimney ducts... tenants really shouldn't be allowed to have a heating.
5. CHAM. Les Fêtes Champêtres. Inconvénient de diner sur l'herbe, non loin d'une ménagerie. Jeu d'adresse sentimental et patriotique...
Country festivals. Disadvantage of dining on the grass, not far from a menagerie. Sentimental and patriotic game of skill...
6. DAUMIER. Actualités. Allant aux renseignements Politiques chez le concierge du Général Changarnier. [DR 2103]
News. The public opinion gets its information on politics from the housekeeper of general Changarnier.
7. CHAM. Actualités. Monsieur Odilon continuant à chasser et à exterminer tous les snagliers qu'il rencontre.
News. Monsieur Odilon continues to hunt and exterminate all the snagliers he encounters.
8. CHAM. Les Fêtes Champêtres. Elite de la société de Mabile, au bal de Noisy-le-Sec. Mr. le maire n'est plus content.
Country festivals. Elite of Mabile's society, at the ball at Noisy-le-Sec. Mr. Mayor is no longer happy.
9. BEAUMONT. Au Bal Masqué. Cette Petite ligne m'annonce que votre vertu va enfin trouver sa récompense...un fort marchand de papier en gros s'apprête à vous demander en mariage! J'aimerais mieux un restaurateur...je me commanderais un crâne souper tous les jours de bal!
At the masked ball. This Little Line announces to me that your virtue will finally find its reward...a strong merchant of wholesale paper is about to ask you in marriage! I'd rather have a restaurant owner...I'd order myself a skull supper every prom day!
10. CHAM. Les Politiques de Marais. Eh! Bien, et les nouvelles du Portugal?... Je suis un peu plus rassuré, les nouvelles doivent être meilleures, je remarque aujourd'hui que les marchandes d'oranges sont moins abattues...je ne vous cacherai pas qu'il y a deux jours j'étais bien effrayé, on m'avait fait une orange dix sous!...
Marsh Politics. Hey! Well, what about the news from Portugal?... I'm a little more reassured, the news must be better, I notice today that the orange sellers are less despondent...I won't hide from you that there two days later I was very frightened, they had made me an orange ten sous!...
11. CHAM. Actualités. Lecture de journaux donnant des nouvelles peu rassurantes.
News. Reading newspapers giving not very reassuring news.
12. CHAM. Actualités. Une Séance de la Commission de Surveillance. Nous constatons au procès verbal que présentement la ville de Paris est uniquement occupée de ballons!...
News. A meeting of the Supervisory Commission. We note in the minutes that currently the city of Paris is only occupied with balloons!...
13. CHAM. Actualités. Le Beau sexe voyant, grâce aux sergens de ville, les jeux de Bourse transformés en des parties de barres.
News. The fair sex seeing, thanks to the sergens de ville, the stock exchange games transformed into bar games.
14. DAUMIER. Actualités. Un nouvel Almaviva venant essayer de séduire Rosine-Véron en lui donnant une sérénade sur l'air de Vive Henri V. [DR 2110]
News. A new Almaviva trying to seduce Rosine - Véron by singing her a serenade on the tune of Vive Henry V.
15. QUILLENBOIS. Prophéties Charivariques. Les cabinets de lecture subiront des agrandissemens reclamés par le format des journaux. Le journal la semaine trouvera un abonné. Les abonnés de l'Epoque porteront un uniforme. Les porteurs du journal seront tenus de les saluer.
Charivaric prophecies. The reading cabinets will undergo enlargements demanded by the format of the newspapers. The weekly newspaper will find a subscriber. Epoch subscribers will wear a uniform. Newspaper carriers will be required to salute them.
16. CHAM. Actualités. Dègoûté de la politique, le directeur du Constitutionnel se décide à attendre désormais bien tranquillement l'arrivée du mois de Mai de l'an 1852.
News. Disgusted with politics, the director of Le Constitutionnel decided to wait quietly for the arrival of the month of May in the year 1852.
17. DAUMIER. Actualitiés. Surveillant la Commission de Surveillance. [DR 3957]
News. Supervising the supervisory commission.
18. DAUMIER. Actualitiés. Un nouveau Bélisaire. [DR 2107]
News. A new Belisarius.
19. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. Deux bons voisins. [DR 1618]
Tenants and Owners. Two good neighbors.
20. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. Locataires noctambules. [DR 1619]
Tenants and Owners. Nighttime movers.
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- Paris Comique, Revue Amusante
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- DAUMIER, Honoré; CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé); BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de; QUILLENBOIS pseudonym of Charles Marie de Sarcus
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- Paris: Chez Aubert, Éditeur du Musée Philipon..., 1842
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