VICTOR AUVER French Artist BAR FIGHT Cabaret TAVERN Hand-Colored 1825 ENGRAVING

Description: Item: 1825 hand colored engraving on watermarked paper entitled “The Charcoal Porters”, along with accompanying descriptive page. This print and title page are from a folio of hand colored engravings titled “A Tour Through Paris”, published by William Sams (British bookseller, flourished 1815-43), London. This and other plates are attributed to artist Victor Auver. Some dealers refer to the prints from the folio as aquatint engravings or color aquatints, so it’s possible that the print was made using some aquatint technique (making a monochrome print with aquatint areas of tone along with engraving for outlines), but it’s completely hand colored with watercolor painting. This plate is a scene at the cabaret, which was, at the time, the same thing as a tavern but they sold food as well as wine (you can see that the seated lady has oysters for sale and the vintner or wine guy is selling his version of Burgundy inside). The customers are charcoal porters getting off from work, and the central figure, a lady, is trying to break up a fight between the men. The wine guy inside likes this action because it’s going to make everybody thirsty and they’ll spend some money (!). PLEASE SEE MY OTHER EBAY LISTINGS FOR A NICE SELECTION OF ART, ANTIQUES, AND COLLECTIBLES !! Cabaret History: Cabarets had appeared in Paris by at least the late fifteenth century. They were distinguished from taverns because they served food as well as wine, the table was covered with a cloth, and the price was charged by the plate, not the mug. They were not particularly associated with entertainment even if musicians sometimes performed in both. Early on, cabarets were considered better than taverns; by the end of the sixteenth century, they were the preferred place to dine out. In the seventeenth century, a clearer distinction emerged when taverns were limited to selling wine, and later to serving roast meats. Cabarets were frequently used as meeting places for writers, actors, friends and artists. Writers such as La Fontaine, Moliere and Jean Racine were known to frequent a cabaret called the Mouton Blanc on rue du Vieux-Colombier, and later the Croix de Lorraine on the modern rue Bourg-Tibourg. In 1773 French poets, painters, musicians and writers began to meet in a cabaret called Le Caveau on rue de Buci, where they composed and sang songs. The Caveau continued until 1816, when it was forced to close because its clients wrote songs mocking the royal government.

Price: 295 USD

Location: Pitman, New Jersey

End Time: 2024-12-23T17:40:07.000Z

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