Les Jeux de L'Enfance [with] Recueil de Cinquante Scenes de Grisetes [with] Recueil des Scènes Familiéres, et de Société de Paris [with] Les Sept péchés capital [with] Miscellaneous Prints

AUBRY, Charles; BOILLY, Louis Leopold; [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel] J.S.

Published by Paris: Delpech, 1826 / 1824

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Mischievous Children, Grisettes and Deadly Sins In Sixty Hand-Colored Lithographs AUBRY, Charles. BOILLY, Louis Leopold. [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel]. J.S. Les Jeux de L'Enfance [with]Recueil de Cinquante Scenes de Grisettes [with] Recueil des Scenes Familiéres [with] Boilly Les Sept péchés capital [with] Miscellaneous Prints. Paris: Delpech, 1824-1826. Folio (13 3/4 x 10 inches; 349 x 254 mm.). Les Jeux de L'Enfance, eight hand-colored lithographed plates - complete; Recueil de Cinquante Scenes de Grisetes, twenty-eight hand-colored lithographed plates of fifty; Recueil des Scenes Familiéres, nineteen of twenty-one hand colored lithograped plates; Boilly. Les Sept péchés capital (three of seven) hand-colored lithographed plates & two hand-colored lithographs by Aubry (1824). Mid-nineteenth century quarter crimson straight-grained morocco over straight-grained paper boards. Smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt "Recueil De Lithograph", later plain endpapers. This album containing sixty hand colored lithograph plates was most likely issued by Delpech as a compilation of unsold prints, a common practice of contemporary printmakers and sellers, or assembled by a collector. Contents: Les Jeux de L'Enfance Paris: Delpech, [1824]. (Games of Childhood). Complete set of eight hand colored lithograph plates - two by Leopold Boilly and six by Charles Aubry. (active 1818-1837). 1. La Perruque de Grand-Pere [Boilly, Delpech, 1824] 2. Le Bonnet de la Grand-Mere [Boilly, Delpech, 1824] 3 La Barbe du Sapeur. 1824 4. La Chiquenaude 5. La Petite Tabagie 6. Le Remede 7. Les Papillotes 8. Les Petits Acteurs Les Jeux de L'Enfance - Other than the five plates (of eight) listed in Gumuchian, this suite of plates is unknown to all the children s books, biographies, and bibliographies on lithography. An exceptionally scarce and complete set of eight hand colored lithograph plates (two by Leopold Boilly and six by Charles Aubry) depicting mischievous children. "Un très rare album lithographié pet. in-folio, demi-maroquin bleu canard à coins, dos à nerfs titre doré, tête dorée [Rel. moderne], premier plat de couv. lithographié conservé.… L'exemplaire de la BnF (le seul au CcFr) n'a que 5 planches. Inconnu à toutes les bibliographies sur l'enfance, ainsi qu'à toutes celles sur la llithographie. Très rare recueil de 8 lithographies (2 par L. Boilly et 6 par Aubry) aquarellées à l'époque présentant autant de bêtises que les enfants aiment à accomplir tres bel ensemble." Bibliographie de la France, 1825, p. 30. OCLC locates just one example [but with only the six Aubry plates] in libraries & institutions worldwide: The Morgan Library & Museum, NY, US (ex Michael Sadleir / Paul Gavault/Gordon Ray). Gumuchian 5970-5975; (plate nos. 1, 3, 6, 7 and 8 only); Not in Cotsen; Not in Osborne. Journal général d'annonces des oeuvres de musique, gravures et lithographies Vol. I (January 1825), 61 (Les Jeux de l'enfance). Charles Aubry (fl. 1817-1837). Charles Aubry was an early lithographic artist who made his reputation with hunting scenes and military subjects. In 1822 he accepted the post of professor of art at l'Ecole Militaire de Saumur. In 1823 he published Album Comique de Pathologie Pittoresque in which he wrote the forty pages of text and together with Antoine Chazal (1793-1854), Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798-1875), Edme-Jean Pigal (1798-1872) & Hippolyte Bellangé (1800-1866) made the illustrations for the twenty highly amusing lithographs. Listings from the records of the Restoration Salon indicates that Charles Aubry contributed one lithograph to the 1824 exhibition. Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845). was the son of a wood-carver. Boilly lived in Douai until he was seventeen years of age, when he went to Arras to receive instruction in trompe-l'oeil painting at Domenica Doncre before moving to Paris in 1785. Between 1789 and 1791 he executed eight small scenes on moralizing and amorous subjects for the Avignon collector Esprit-Claude-François Calvet (1728 1810),

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• Title: Les Jeux de L'Enfance [with] Recueil de Cinquante Scenes de Grisetes [with] Recueil des Scènes Familiéres, et de Société de Paris [with] Les Sept péchés capital [with] Miscellaneous Prints
• Publisher: Paris: Delpech, 1826 / 1824
• Edition: 1st Edition
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