'Les Musards de la rue du Coq', lithograph, Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret, Paris, 1804

Print depicting a crowd outside the windows of a print shop, 'Martinet Libraire'.

Exhibitions: Hand-coloured impression - French Caricature and the French Revolution 1789-1799 Grunwald Centre for the Graphic Arts, University of California, L.A., 1989

The caricature shows a crowd outside the windows of a fashionable print shop, Martinet, which specialised in caricatures. " Martinet's store was located on the Right Bank, near the Louvre and the Palais Royale. Its location, its size and is fashionable clientele all indicate the rise in status that French caricature had undergone [at this time]....[Bergeret] was one of the most important artists involved in the introduction of lithography to France..." [Cynthia Burlingham and James Cuno: Catalogue for French Caricature and the French Revolution 1789-1799 Grunwald Centre for the Graphic Arts, University of California, L.A., 1989, cat. entry 190, p.272]

This caricature shows a crowd outisde the windows of a fashionable print shop, Martinet, which specialised in caricatures. Martinet's store was located on the Right Bank, near the Louvre and the Palais Royale. The location suggests that caricature had a high status in France by this date.

Bergeret was one of the most important artists involved in the introduction of lithography to France.

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