Comical French Character etchings hand colored early 1800's

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Comical French Characters
from
"Ces Messieurs
Travestissements Fantaisistes"

Dessins Inedits par STOP (Louis Morel-Retz)

Paris: Bureau du Journal Amusant, du Petit Journal pour Rire
20, Rue Bergeme

Undated, but circa 1850-1875

Hand colored etchings (various condition issues on some plates, see enlargements)
Sheet size: approx. 11.5 x 7.5 inches

Cours de la Bourse

$45

Major

$45

Photographe moyen age

Soldat des Canaries

$45

Actéon

$50

Osmanli

Prince Charmant

$50

Ministre plénipotentiare
du roi d'Araucanie

Poet élégiaque

$45

Fonctionnaire dégommé

$40

Racontras
(Reporter)

$40

6.25 x 9.25 inches

some foxing, grubbiness in margins

This is the entire collection available from this series.

Below is a similar humorous French caricature.

The hand-colored lithograph below is not from the same source as the above prints.
It has been attributed to Edmé-Jean Pigal, from Mouers parisiennes (Parisian Manners), published in 1828.

"From the late 1820's to the late 1830's, he (Pigal) produced numerous lithographs caricaturing contemporary customs and social types, in which he ridiculed the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie and the vulgarity of the lower classes.
His favorite characters were the street urchins of Paris, servants, coachmen and doormen, and lecherous old men."

— Beatrice Farwell, in The Charged Image: French Lithographic Caricature, 1816-1848,
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1989, p. 127.

Rival Queans [sic]
(Rival Queens)

Size: approx. 7.25 x 6 inches
Condition: Fair/Good— corner wear and damage; title is adhered to front of print; back of print shows evidence of prior mounting (glue spots in corners on back of print); smudges and stray watercolor paint or lithographers ink in upper left corner.

$125