Daumier, HonoreBiblio.com
DAUMIER, HonoreBiblio.com
Les Étrangers à Paris
06343Paris: Chez Aubert 1844. One of Daumier's most Iconic Albums from the early 1840s<br /> Published at the height of Parisian Tourism and Bourgeois Curiosity<br /> Twenty Magnificent Hand Colored Lithographs<br /> <br /> DAUMIER Honoré de. Les Étrangers à Paris. Paris: Chez Aubert 1844. <br /> <br /> First edition. Folio 13 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches; 333 x 251 mm. Complete with twenty magnificent hand-colored lithographs heightened with gum arabic drawn and lithographed by Honoré Daumier printed on strong wove paper.<br /> <br /> Publisher's dark blue ribbed cloth covers bordered in blind upper cover decoratively lettered in gilt. Smooth spine original pale yellow endleaves. Sixteen-page Aubert publisher's catalogue at rear moderately foxed. <br /> <br /> Plates crisp and luminous colors vibrant and unfaded gum arabic highlights glossy and intact; with just a few faint marginal fox spots.<br /> <br /> A fine fresh and very scarce complete copy of this celebrated satirical album caricaturing foreign tourists and provincials adrift in mid-nineteenth-century Paris. Rarely found with the hand-coloring so vivid and the publisher's binding so well preserved.<br /> <br /> Les Étrangers à Paris stands as one of Daumier's most iconic albums from the early 1840s published by Aubert at the height of Parisian tourism and bourgeois curiosity. It forms a satirical ethnography of the provincial rural and foreign types who in increasing numbers descended upon the capital with wonder - and were swiftly disillusioned or ridiculed.<br /> <br /> These lithographs were originally issued separately in the Charivari and then collected by Aubert for publication in this folio edition. The rarity of complete hand-colored examples especially in such crisp condition with the original Aubert publisher's cloth binding and catalogue cannot be overstated.<br /> <br /> Two of the lithographs nos. 3 & 14 are featured in Daumier 120 Great Lithographs edited by Charles F. Ramus <br /> nos. 48 & 49.<br /> <br /> 1. L'arivée<br /> 2. L'Indispensable visite chez le tailleur du Palais-Royal<br /> 3. Ce qu'on appèle diner au restaurant<br /> 4. Quelques lègères emplèttes<br /> 5. Un obligeant cicerone<br /> 6. Une émotion au jardin des plantes<br /> 7. Une lègère queue a la porte du Palais de L'Industrie<br /> 8. Un èpisode de l'Exposition<br /> 9. Ce qu'on appelle les sèductions de Paris<br /> 10. La visite a L'Hotel des Invalides<br /> 11. Une Llègère promenade en omnibus<br /> 12. Un diner a prix fixe<br /> 13. Un bal champètre de Paris<br /> 14. Grandes eaux à Versailles!<br /> 15. Les Étrangers dévisagés par eux memes<br /> 16. Le portrait au daguéréotype<br /> 17. Les magasins de plus en plus monstres<br /> 18. Le chapeau qu'on rapporte de Paris<br /> 19. Voi-tu cet imbècile qui ne s'appercoit pas que son tonneau fuit.<br /> 20. Le départ<br /> <br /> Carteret IV p.130 "rare et recherché"; L'Archtambault Catalogue de l'œuvre lithographié de Daumier p. 238;<br /> Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 162; Vicaire III 190. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1844 unknown
