Le Jouer de Baguettes
Print
1817 (Published)
1817 (Published)
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This was published by Pierre Joseph Antoine de la Mésangère (1761-1830), better known by the name of Le Mésangère, as plate number 92 in Le Bon Genre, his first edition of hand-coloured engravings published in 1817 showing French life and fashion. The caption earlier in the volume notes that it refers to an event that took place in 1816.
The print shows a drummer using his drumsticks to play a tune, accompanied by a violinist, while fashionably-dressed ladies look on. Prints of entertainers published in Le Bon Genre were images of performers who would have been well known in Paris at the time and who could be seen for an entrance fee in exhibition halls and theatres.
The print shows a drummer using his drumsticks to play a tune, accompanied by a violinist, while fashionably-dressed ladies look on. Prints of entertainers published in Le Bon Genre were images of performers who would have been well known in Paris at the time and who could be seen for an entrance fee in exhibition halls and theatres.
Object details
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| Title | Le Jouer de Baguettes (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Printing ink and watercolour on paper |
| Brief description | Hand-coloured lithograph titled La Joueur de Baguettes. Plate No. 92 from the first edition of Le Bon Genre, Observations sur les Modes et les Usages de Paris. Published in 1817 by Pierre de la Mésangère (1761-1830) |
| Physical description | Hand-coloured etching showing a man wearing jacket and breeches standing by a drum on a stand, holding two drumsticks aloft in his right hand with a seated violinist playing behind him. Three fashionably-dressed ladies standing watching his performance, one holding a parasol, another a shawl. Titled in the margin below: 'Le Joueur de Baguettes' and above: 'Le Bon Genre No.92' |
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| Summary | This was published by Pierre Joseph Antoine de la Mésangère (1761-1830), better known by the name of Le Mésangère, as plate number 92 in Le Bon Genre, his first edition of hand-coloured engravings published in 1817 showing French life and fashion. The caption earlier in the volume notes that it refers to an event that took place in 1816. The print shows a drummer using his drumsticks to play a tune, accompanied by a violinist, while fashionably-dressed ladies look on. Prints of entertainers published in Le Bon Genre were images of performers who would have been well known in Paris at the time and who could be seen for an entrance fee in exhibition halls and theatres. |
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| Accession number | S.249-2018 |
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| Record created | October 15, 2018 |
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