THE THEATER
Prints and Drawings Of, In, For and About
Prints and Drawings Of, In, For and About
- Glintenkamp: Muse Thalia
- Callot: Soliman Act I
- Desperet, Molière : "L’Avare"
- Schaffhauser: Angelica
- Green: David Garrick, Esqr.
- Toulouse-Lautrec: Le Coiffeur
- Thew: Shakespeare: Hamlet
- Parigi: La Flora
- Sloan: The Green Hour
- Brocard: Design
- Brouwer: Het Winter Bosch
- Doré: Paons (Peacocks)
- Houston: Mr. Berry
- Guyot: Les Trois Sultanes
- Beerbohm: Coquelin Aîné
- Knight: At the Footlights
- Thew: King Henry the Fifth
- Anquetin: Le Théâtre Libre
- Say: Miss Mellon
- Fabbroni: Two Stage Settings
- Hogarth: Mr. Garrick
- Guérard: Marionette
- Edelinck: The Comic Actor
- Renouard: Le Fond de la Loge
- Watson: Lady Sarah Lennox
- Toulouse-Lautrec: Aux Variétés
- Ogborne: Henry the Sixth
- Doré: Seraphin
- Monogrammist WHN: The Riot at Covent Garden
- Janinet: Nina
- Régamey: A Figure from the Commedia dell’Arte
- Vuillard: Solnes, le Constructeur
- Circle of Delacroix: Mademoiselle George
- de Bruycker: Théâtre (Ténor)
- Audran: Design
- Bormann: The State Opera
- Desboutin: Dailly
- Toulouse-Lautrec: Yvette Guilbert
- Marceau: Three Clowns
- Rados: Stage Design
- Daumier: Carotte Dramatique
- Rops: Caricature Portrait
- Ibels: L’Amour S’Amuse
- Daumier: Les Théâtres
- Markham: The Show is Over
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3. August Desperet (?-1865) Allons vite, des commissaires (Molière : "L’Avare" ) |
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Allons vite, des commissaires (Molière : "L’Avare" )
Lithograph, 1833-34, 233 x 275 mm., Bibliothèque National Inventaire 9, pl. 270. A very fine impression on white wove paper with good margins. The image shows a scene from Molière’s comedy, usually called in English “The Miser,” but the figure on stage here is clearly Louis Philippe and the print is a satire on the avarice of “the citizen king.”
Desperet, a contemporary of Daumier and one of many great caricaturists of the time, was born in Lyon and worked frequently in conjunction with Grandville.
