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

Paris: Delpech, 1826 / 1824. 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), including The Visit (1789; Saint-Omer, Musée Hôtel Sandelin). He exhibited at the Salon between 1791 and 1824 and received a gold medal at the Salon in 1804. These paintings thoroughly observed and reflected all aspects of urban life, its costumes and its habits, between the revolutionary period and the Restoration. In 1823, Boilly produced a series of humorous lithographies entitled Grimaces. In 1833, at a time when his popularity was declining, he was admitted to the Légion d'honneur and the Institut de France.


SCHEFFER. Recueil de Cinquante Scenes de Grisettes. 28 of 50 plates.
The 28 plates are clean and fresh.

-. Dieu, que je suis lasse!
-. Eh bien, tiens,...ne crie plus.
2. Que c'est ennuyeux les vacances!
-. Allons, allons, pas tant de raisons...
5. Ah vous me faites des niches!
6. Et puis vous épouserez une femme riche.
7. Vous ne serez plus méchant?
8. Ça ne vous regarde pas.
9. Nous serons comme frère et soeur?
10. C'est un beau jeune homme.
11. Ah bah! un de perdue, deux de retrouvés.
12. C'est un gage de fidelite...
13. Nous les rattraperons.
14. Le te pardonne mais tu me le pairas.
15. Sans compter...qu'il fait des Romances...
16. Il set passé - ai-je eu peur.
17. Ah, si j'avais su comme tu es!
18. Le loyer, 2000 francs...
19. Oh, qui je voudrais use chaine comme ça!
20. Et ce monsieur...? - il est très riche mais...
21. Tu n'es pas gentil ce soir.
21. Votre fidèle ami pour la vie ton nom...et enfoncé.
22. Oh, je t'en pie, ne me, parle pas raison...
22. Pas possible!
26. Est-ce que je peux empêcher qu'on m'aime?
27. Dis done, Constance...
25. Puisqu'il me la juré...
28. Je comprends ma bonne, je comprends.

Lipperheide 3685; Not in Colas or Hiler. Rare: OCLC/KVK locate just three examples (all complete with 50 color plates) in libraries and institutions worldwide: Morgan Library & Museum (NY, US); Harry Ransom Library, University of Texas, Austin (TX, US); Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany).

The contemporary manners and customs of Parisian couples, illustrated with great charm and wry, understated humor by Swiss genre painter and lithographer Jean Gabriel Scheffer (1797-1876), who studied with Regnault and was a friend of Corot, Aligny, and Léopold Robert. His work was shown at the Salon de Paris beginning in 1822; his reputation as a designer of many wryly humorous lithographs, typically signed "J.S.," was firm.


Recueil des Scènes Familiéres, et de Société de Paris (Scheffer) 19 of 21 plates.

1. 8 heures du soir - signed J.S.
2. 8 heures du matin - signed J.S.
3. Comme on l'écoute - signed J.S.
4. Que je vous y'reprenne... - signed J.S.
5. La Confidence - signed J.S.
6. Il m'a fait des traits ma chère! - unsigned
7. Faut lui répondre... signed J.S.
8. Derniers instans d'une demoiselle - signed J.S.
9. Dépêche-toi donc, n'y aura plus de places - unsigned
10. Dieux! si un homme me battait! - unsigned
11. ´A-ton été bien sage? - unsigned
12. Un Cabinet - le dîner dans une heure - signed J.S.
13. Ça serait joli en blouze... - signed J.S.
14. Surtout n'allez pas la compromettre - unsigned
15. ´A-ton une tournure? - signed J.S.
16. Le jour de la blanchisseuse - signed J.S.
17. La fin de Décembre - signed J.S.
18. Me soupçonner, moi!! - signed J.S.
19. A belle l'air gamain! - signed J.S

Plate one with foxing, damp stains, repairs to verso but not affecting image; plates 2 & 3 with light foxing to lower blank margins; plate 4 with small repair to lower blank margin; plate 5 with heavy foxing/staining to blank lower margin-not affecting image; plates 6, 7 & 8 cut short by one inch at lower blank margin; plate 10 with lower corner torn away; scattered light foxing to many of the plates. Altogether an imperfect and problem copy - very little value has been allocated to these plates..


Miscellaneous Prints:

Aubry, Les Soins d'une Mere (The Solicitude of a Mother), Delpech , 1824.
Aubry, La Nourrice Imprudente (The Imprudent Nurse), Delpech, 1824.

OCLC locates just one example of the first lithograph in libraries & institutions worldwide: Wellcome Library (UK). No examples of the second lithograph located.

BOILLY. Les Sept péchés capital

Boilly, L'Envie (Envy), (Les Sept péchés capitaux) Delpech, 1824.
Boilly, ah! le méchant (Ah! The mean one!) (Recuils de Dessins lithographiques) Delpech, 1824.
Boilly, La Paresse (Sloth), (Les Sept péchés capitaux) Delpech, 1824.