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Musiciens de la Chapelle. M. l'Abbé Loup. M. Montaugibet, premier Trompette. aiv: Ah! le bel oiseau maman. Lithograph by Benard after Charles Joseph Traviès de Villers depicting a rather large gentleman in formal dress, half-length, playing a tiny toy trumpet, music in hand

[Paris]: Aubert ... Jd. la caricatur, Galerie véro dodat, [Ca. 1835].

230 x 135 mm. Signed with initials in the stone. On wove paper. Text to verso.

Slightly worn, browned and soiled; light horizontal crease; small circular handstamp to blank upper right corner.

Traviès de Villers (1804-1859) was a contemporary and colleague of Daumier. This caricature was originally published in Le Charivari, an illustrated magazine published in Paris from 1832 to 1937 specializing in political cartoons, reviews, and satires.

Item #27414

Price: $400.00  other currencies