Author: DAUMIER, Honore (1807-79)
Title: Equitation Boutiquiere Sur Des Chevaux de Louage Et Ou IL N'y a Pas Autre Chose a Louer
Description: Paris, Le Charivari, 1839. Lithograph. 4to (8 1/8" X 11½"). Very good. Mild wear and faint age toning only. Tipped to backing board and cream paper matte, old but nice and lightly age toned. The first plate in Daumier's "Les Parisiens" series (here trimmed, with series title cropped out by matte) from this illustrated newspaper. Title translates as "Shopkeepers riding hired horses.." and image shows two uncomfortable-looking Parisian gents in suits and hats astride two small left-facing horses in a wooded setting; street sign at further left notes "Avenue des Princes." Daumier's lithographed signature appears at lower left. Quite striking, with news text and advertisements on verso. "Le Charivari" (literally, "Hullabaloo") was a satirical newspaper that began in 1832 and continued until 1935, publishing reviews as well as political cartoons and caricatures such as Daumier's. .

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