Description: ARTHEOPOLIS Prints - Drawings - Paintings - art books do not hesitate to consult my others items for sale !! don't forget to add me to the list of your favorites !! ATartist: Henry Bonaventure Monnier (1799-1877) caricaturist, illustrator, French playwright and actor born June 7, 1799 in Paris and died in Paris 1 January 3, 1877 After studying at the Lycée Bonaparte, Henry Monnier entered July 1816 to the Ministry of Justice to take up a mediocre job as a paper pusher, which he abandoned in May 1821, who could no longer bear the hassle of his hierarchical superiors3. Parallel to this administrative occupation, he frequented from 1819 the workshops of Anne Louis Giraudet and Antoine Jean Gros. He published his first portraits of actors in 1821. In 1822, he made his first stay in London, where color lithography techniques experienced great development. After several stays in England, he returned to France five years later. the work:original old drawing in pen, ink and washDescription rider and young woman in seduction sheet size: 17.5cm x 13cm Remarks ++ good general condition ++Biographical suite His encounters with Alexandre Dumas, Theophile Gautier, Stendhal, Eugene Sue, Prosper Merimee, Eugene Scribe, Eugène Delacroix, Louis Boulanger And Honoré de Balzac open the doors of fame to him. Between 1827 and 1832, he multiplied the albums of lithographs, sketching the mores and faces of his contemporaries, from the grisette to the office worker. THE 21 may 1834, Henry Monnier married at Brussels Caroline Péguchet, known as Caroline Linsel (born February 2, 1809 in Brussels, and died on October 6, 1887 in Parnes in the Oise), actress of Mint Theater. The couple will have three children: Albert Pierre (1835-1884), Fanny Gilberte and Jenny Albertine (1847-1923). From 1850s, he is mainly dedicated to thewriting and at theater. In 1857 he published his most famous work: Memoirs of Monsieur Joseph Prudhomme. There is created the caricature Mr. Prudhomme, chubby, conformist, solemn and imbecile character, whose Balzac will say that it imposes itself as "the illustrious type of the bourgeois of Paris" and which Paul Verlaine will be inspired, in the Saturnian Poems, for a homonymous poem. I'French Academy awards him the Vitet price in 1875 and the Monbinne price in 1879 awarded to his widow. Henry Monnier served as a model for Balzac for the character of Jean Jacques Bixiou in his novel The Employees or the Superior Woman (1838), civil servant, caricaturist, man of good words, who returns in many novels of The Human ComedyAfter studying at Bonaparte high school, Henry Monnier enters July 1816 to the Ministry of Justice to take up a mediocre job as a paper pusher, which he abandoned in May 1821, who could no longer bear the hassle of his hierarchical superiors3. Parallel to this administrative occupation, he attended from 1819 the workshops ofAnne-Louis Girodet and D'Antoine Jean Gros. He published his first portraits of actors in 1821.In 1822, he made his first visit to London where color lithography techniques are experiencing great development. After several stays in England, he returned to France five years later. His encounters with Alexandre Dumas, Theophile Gautier, Stendhal, Eugene Sue, Prosper Merimee, Eugene Scribe, Eugène Delacroix, Louis Boulanger And Honoré de Balzac open the doors of fame to him.Between 1827 and 1832, he multiplied the albums of lithographs, sketching the mores and faces of his contemporaries, from the grisette to the office worker.THE 21 may 1834, Henry Monnier married at Brussels Caroline Péguchet, known as Caroline Linsel (born February 2, 1809 in Brussels, and died on October 6, 1887 in Parnes in the Oise), actress of Mint Theater. The couple will have three children: Albert Pierre (1835-1884), Fanny Gilberte and Jenny Albertine (1847-1923).From 1850s, he is mainly dedicated to thewriting and at theater. In 1857 he published his most famous work: Memoirs of Monsieur Joseph Prudhomme. There is created the caricature Mr. Prudhomme, chubby, conformist, solemn and imbecile character, whose Balzac will say that it imposes itself as "the illustrious type of the bourgeois of Paris" and which Paul Verlaine will be inspired, in the Saturnian Poems, for a homonymous poem.I'French Academy awards him the Vitet price in 1875 and the Monbinne price in 1879 awarded to his widow.From 1850s, he is mainly dedicated to thewriting and at theater. In 1857 he published his most famous work: Memoirs of Monsieur Joseph Prudhomme. There is created the caricature Mr. Prudhomme, chubby, conformist, solemn and imbecile character, whose Balzac will say that it imposes itself as "the illustrious type of the bourgeois of Paris" and which Paul Verlaine will be inspired, in the Saturnian Poems, for a homonymous poem. From 1850s, he is mainly dedicated to thewriting and at theater. In 1857 he published his most famous work: Memoirs of Monsieur Joseph Prudhomme. There is created the caricature Mr. Prudhomme, chubby, conformist, solemn and imbecile character, whose Balzac will say that it imposes itself as "the illustrious type of the bourgeois of Paris" and which Paul Verlaine will
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Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Type: Drawing
Period: XIXth and before
Material: ink and pen
Style: Romanticism
Features: Signed
Theme: Character
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