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Auguste Bouquet
1810-1846
Les favoris de la poire
Handcolored lithograph on paper.
10 13/16 x 14 3/16 inches (275 x 362 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Leah Lewitt.
1997.81
Notes:
Bouquet was a regular contributor to the satirist publication "La Caricature", which flourished between 1830 and 1835. In "Les favoris de la poire", which appeared in no. 124 of "La Caricature", pl. 257, the artist ridicules Louis-Philippe (the pear), depicted flanked by two of his ministers, d'Agoult and Barthe.
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Signed at left with initials "AB" in stylized monogram.
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Mrs. Leah Lewitt, New York.
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