Variétés Drolatiques [bound with] Histoire Ancienne

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An Exceptionally Rare Daumier Album Seven Series Complete Containing Fifty Humorous Lithographs DAUMIER, Honoré, illustrator. Variétés Drolatiques. Vulgarités. - Les Musiciens de Paris. - Proverbes de famille. - Proverbes et Maximes. - La Peche. - La Journée du Celibataire. - Les Saltimbanques. 50 Planches. Paris: Léopold Pannier et Cie., [1841]. Vulgarités. 10 plates complete DR 905-914 Les Musiciens de Paris. 6 plates complete DR 919-924 Proverbes de famille. 2 plates complete DR 797-798 Proverbes et Maximes. 12 plates complete DR 803-814 La Peche. 7 plates complete DR 815-821 La Journée du Celibataire. 12 plates complete DR 607-618 Les Saltimbanques. 1 plate (of 2) DR 620 Total 50 plates complete. "Pannier published a separate album with the title "Variétés Drolatiques", par Daumier, Paris , 1 vol. in-4°, demi chagr. It contains the following complete series,sur blanc, bringing the total of prints to 50:Vulgarités, Musiciens de Paris, Proverbes de Famille, Proverbes et Maximes, La Pêche, Journée du Célibataire und Les Saltimbanques." This album can be considered rare." (Daumier Register). OCLC locates just three of the plates from Proverbes Maximes. Nos. 6, 9, and 11 (all at Washington University, OR, USA). We located just one copy at auction - sold between October 1898 and July 1899!!! The only plate that appears in the Armand Hammer Daumier collection is the second plate of La Peche (p.67) [Bound together with]: Exceedingly Rare Daumier Histoire Ancienne Complete with Fifty Superb Lithographs DAUMIER, Honoré. illustrator. PHILIPON, Charles. Histoire Ancienne. Paris: Chez Aubert, [1841-1843]. Folio (13 3/16 x 10 inches; 335 x 254 mm.). Fifty superb lithograph plates. Some intermittent, mainly marginal foxing. Together 100 fine lithograph plates containing two of Daumier's rarest suites, both complete. Contemporary quarter dark brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, marbled end-papers. A near fine and complete example of two of Honoré Daumier's finest and rarest works. There is only one copy of Histoire Ancienne located in libraries and institutions worldwide (The Bibliotheque Nationale de France). "This series of 50 lithos on characters in ancient history and mythology appeared between 1841 and 1843. Daumier's irreverent satirizing of the sacred characters in Greek and Roman mythology contributed to the Romantic attack upon the Classical school in the continuing battle waged in the theater, literature and the arts. Philipon's contrived poems, as captions to the series, contain many veiled allusions to Louis-Philippe and individuals in his reign." Plate no. 22. "Le Baptême D'Achille." (The baptism of Achilles; As one tempers a weapon of war, Thetis wishing to make a hero of her brat, dipped him in the Styx, as soon as he saw the light, which proves that a bath is good for all purposes. - On the Influence of Baths, poem by Mr. Vigier.) Deltail # 946. Plate no. 46. "La Mère des Gracques." (The mother of the Gracchi: One day when a gay lady was shamelessly praising her jewels, which were worth a few cents, this Roman mother, showing her two young sons, the hope of the country, said, "Behold my only jewels!" - Plutarch.) Deltail # 970. This well-known story provided Daumier the chance to portray two typical Frenchwomen with typical unruly children. Deltail # 970. Plate no. 47. "Pygmalion." (O triumph of the arts! What was your amazement, great sculptor, when you saw your marble come to life and, in a chaste and gentle manner, slowly bow down to ask you for a pinch of snuff. - Count Siméon.). Deltail # 971. (Charles F. Ramus, editor. Daumier 120 Great Lithographs) Histoire Ancienne is a series consisting of 50 numbered lithographs (DR. 925-974), which appeared in the Charivari between December 1841 and January 1843. Between December 1841 and January 1843, Honoré Daumier in the Charivari published a series devoted to ancient history: fifty plates to antique themes, se. Seller Inventory # 04953

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