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19th Century Romantic Illustrations

Candid moments from 19th-century life, featuring elegantly dressed figures in various social interactions, reflecting romance and humor in artistic lithographs.

Wattier, Émile Charles (n.1800-11-17-D.1868-11-22), 4th descending step. The quarrel (attributed title), 1824. Lithography colored on woven paper. Balzac house.
Wattier, Émile Charles (n.1800-11-17-D.1868-11-22), 4th descending step. The quarrel (attributed title), 1824. Lithography colored on woven paper. Balzac house.
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...Mais la faiblesse, c'est votre dignité, c'est votre noblesse, à vous - femme! si tu viens de Dieu, c'est par Eve ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other WorksFaust and Malzata; Tue (Flow. CA 1860-1870), Scheffer, Ary (1795-1858), Szumacher, I. (Petersburg; Graphic AD; Ca 1860-1870); 1861-1870 (1861-00-00-1870-00-00);The born of a modist, 1828: chap. IX: Dear friend !!!, c. 1828 Chap. IX: Dear friend !!! paper fashion plates(ON LENTOURE.). Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866Le premier jour de l'an. Dated: 19th century. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.(17) / - So go, eh! great censored - So go yourself, species of censoredThe Gallmeyer in Berlin , Josefine Gallmeyer, The Gallmeyer in Berlin from Kikeriki , Angerer , Göschl, RealizationCaptain Conquest and His Baggage Wagon, Print made by John Goldar, 1729-1795, British, after Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733-1794, Swiss, Published by Robert Sayer, 1725-1794, British, Published by James Sayer, 1748-1823, British, Published by John Smith of Cheapside, active ca. 1750-1789, British, 1772, Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 11 1/16 x 8 1/8 inches (28.1 x 20.7 cm), Plate: 8 x 5 7/16 inches (20.3 x 13.8 cm), and Image: 5 11/16 x 5 1/16 inches (14.5 x 12.8 cm), caricature, coat, costume, cravat, embroidery, flounces, genre subject, gown, humor, man, mole, obesity, queue wig, satire, staff, tricorne, walking, womanIn carnival, n1 - knight ... it's up to you that I drink! MOUTARD .... You have a politeness above your age! ... Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). In carnival, n1 - knight ... it's up to you that I drink! MOUTARD .... You have a politeness above your age! .. Lithograph in black.España. Catalunya. La "Sota de espadas" de la serie de dibujos "Las cuatro sotas", publicados en Barcelona, año 1881. Author: Eusebi Planas Franquesa.Mamelcio. Three kings - almond king. Nowodworski, Henryk (1875-1930), draughtsman, cartoonistMadame, Who is now happier than the city of Vienna , caricature on the Minister Theodor Graf Bailet by Latour and Alexander von Bach, Francisque pseudonym, drawerJ. Bettannier, Aah! Mabille, il était un Paradis!, 1840-1905, chromolithograph on paper.(Toilette de Visite) ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other WorksA Trip to Gretna Green. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (33.6 × 24.1 cm). Publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Date: 1803. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Annual CaledonianBall. Artist: Asher Brown Durand, American, 1796-1886 After: John Allan, American, born Scotland, active 19th centuryLe jour de l'an. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). LithographsDen Haag, Nijhoff, Martinus, Arnhem, Thieme, Dirk Anthonie, Nederland, Spanier & Zn, widow Elias, Schmidt Crans, Johan Michaël, Cartoon at the dancing masters congress in Amsterdam, 1872, The Hague, Netherlands, Cartoon at the dancing masters congress held in Amsterdam. On the left a nun and a priest are dancing together, on the right a working-class couple, to the music of a violinist. In the context of the fraternization between the 'red and black internationals'. Plate published in the weekly De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 35, 1872., print, picture, cartoon, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 215 mm, width 275 mm, Dutch, 1830-04-30 - 1907-11-14, print maker, printmaker, 1872 - 1872, paper, papier, lithografie (techniek), printer, drukker, Publication (Event), Publicatie, 1830 - 1879, publisher, uitgever, 1826-12-26 - 1894-09-24FIRST PERSON SINGULAR, DRAWN BY C.S. REINFIARTHonoré Daumier (1808-1879). Conjugal customs - Ah you say you spend the night at your office! And you go to Musard with gourmet! .. (pl.18). Black lithography. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 78185-6 Adultery, humorous drawing, argument, woman, man, unfaithful, infidelite, lithography, marital customs, fighting, arguing, caricature, coupleSubdued by your Superior Charms (valentine). Unknown Artist; English, 19th century. Date: 1837-1847. Dimensions: 225 × 187 mm (folded sheet). Lithograph in brown ink with hand-coloring on cream wove paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.Martinet, Pierre (n.1781 - d.), The birth of the Duke of Bordeaux (dummy title). Sepia. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.Taste Philibert-Louis Debucourt (1755-1832). Taste English. Engraving (aquatint, water-colored water).Disparate femenino (Feminine Folly), pl. 1 from the series Losproverbios. Artist: Francisco Goya, Spanish, 1746-1828Les Voisins the campaign; Impressions the Voyage; "Les Voisins de Campagne", from the series: Impressions the Voyage for Le Caricature. Le Cours des Oeufs et du beurre, conversations oiseuses, nouvelles d'Endroit. Caricature: a company ladies and gentlemen in a departure, conversing about 'the course' of the eggs and the butter ...A la Varenne Saint-Maur. Dated: 1862. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.A scene from Figaros wedding costume picture No, to the theater newspaper, After, Carl Karl Mahlknecht -, Copper Engraver, After, Josef Haßlwander Hasslwander -, ArtistMrs. Ford and Mrs. Page with the love letter from John Falstaff, Robert Thew, after Matthew William Peters, 1793 print Illustration in a scene from Shakespeares The cheerful females of Windsor (acte 2, scene 1). Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page see that John Falstaff has sent them both a love letter and decide to take revenge. paper female literary characters. lover with love-letter. laceUne Femme comme moi... remettre un bouton... Dated: 1844. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.'Clio instructing the Young British Lion in History', c1860, (c1860). Artist: John Leech.LAS CIGARRERAS - COSTUMBRES ANDALUZAS - GRABADO COLOREADO - SIGLO XIX. Author: CHAMAN A. Location: MUSEO DEL ROMANTICISMO-GRABADOS. MADRID. SPAIN.Lieutenant smells unusually good in the evening ". NordicNicolas François Regnault, Le Lever Le LeverCERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (1547-1616). Spanish writer. Cervantes with a woman who is about to faint. Illustration by Eusebio Planas for the historical novel 'El prÕncipe de los ingenios. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra' ('The Prince of Wits, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra') by Manuel Fernàndez Gonzàlez, 1876. Engraving.Mossieu le directeur, from Croquis Dramatiques, published in Le Charivari, December 11, 1856 December 11, 1856 Honoré Daumier French. Mossieu le directeur, from Croquis Dramatiques, published in Le Charivari, December 11, 1856. Croquis Dramatiques. Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808-1879 Valmondois). December 11, 1856. Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil). Aaron Martinet (French, 1762-1841). PrintsIllustration for No Trifling with Love (On ne badine pas avec l'Amour); 1834 French drama by Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (1810 - 1857); French dramatist, poet, and novelist.The Setting Sun, Print made by John Young, 1755-1825, British, after John Hoppner, 1758-1810, British, Published by John Young, 1755-1825, British, 1790, Mezzotint (first state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 18 1/8 × 23 1/2 inches (46 × 59.7 cm), Plate: 17 × 22 inches (43.2 × 55.9 cm), and Image: 15 7/8 × 22 inches (40.3 × 55.9 cm)SWEET SILENCEA seated and a standing man with a basket each between the portraits of the artists Thomas Ferdinand Joseph Bianchi and Gabriel van Rooyen, Two men with baskets and the portraits of T Bianchi and G van Rooyen, print maker: Jacob Ernst Marcus, intermediary draughtsman: Hendrik Willem Caspari, Amsterdam, 1809, paper, etching, h 100 mm × w 178 mmUne femme charmante vous a remarqué, vous la suivez longtemps, elle - arrive au pont des Arts, vous allez lui parler...pas de bourse, pas - un sou!! adieu le rêve ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other WorksTight Lacing or Hold Fast Behind March 1, 1777 Matthew Darly British. Tight Lacing or Hold Fast Behind 392479Paul Gavarni, L'Artiste: La Galope, 1814-1866, hand-colored lithograph on paper.Le mari veut qu'on regarde sa couche.... Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). LithographsHarmony Before Matrimony Published 1805 England. Hand-colored etching on paper . James GillrayThe Biedermeier family at the Schiller Festival, Modern Art in Master Woodcuts, yearbook from 1900Madame la Comtesse de Boufflers and Thérèse. Artist: Louis de Carmontelle (French, Paris 1717-1806 Paris). Dimensions: 12 x 8 in. (30.5 x 20.3 cm). Date: mid-1760s. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Dukes Place Lovers February 21, 1797 Thomas Rowlandson. Dukes Place Lovers. After George Murgatroyd Woodward (British, 1765-1809 London). February 21, 1797. Etching. Henry Wigstead (British, 1745-1800 Margate). PrintsShe's a Social Success (Elle a des succès dans le monde). Dimensions: 41.8 cm x 31.8 cm, 31 cm x 26 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: HERMANN PAUL.Gottlob, Fernand-Louis (n.1873-02-23-D.1935-11-10), dignity (title given by the author), 1906. Black Pierre and blue watercolor on paper. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.The aristocrores démasquée / déffiezantanto vous reasts, ses for Spani baldishway and aces of Frès in Vous Frearo.Voyons mauvais sujet! trouvez-vous que nos bals vaillent bien vos bastringues - de la Chaumière est-ce que nos femmes ne valent pas nos grisettes... - C'est un autre genre, mon cher oncle, mais c'est moins amusant ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other WorksIt's only the hope of some little sale! / N � 8 (registered title) | Sixth lithographic album 1826 (IFF 40) (set of all)unknown artist, A Morning Frolic, or the Transmutation of the Sexes. Mezzotint.Art completes Nature. Draughtsman: Elias van Nijmegen. Dating: 1677 - 1755. Measurements: h 193 mm × w 207 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.The Syrens. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 5/8 in. (27.2 × 37.1 cm). Publisher: E. Jackson (London). Date: April 10, 1787. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Gottlob, Fernand-Louis (n.1873-02-23-D.1935-11-10), you will see this evening as the manager strikes the three blows well (title given by the author). Black stone. Graphite pencil. Blue watercolor and black ink on paper. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.My old rotunda, my Alts Parapluie is preferable , caricature for the Viennese world exhibition, image supplement to Hans Jörgel , Vinzenz Katzler -, LithographLe jour où il faut se montrer galant. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). LithographsLED UO Norbert Goenuette (1854-1894). The duo. Dry tip, brown ink.François Séraphin Delpech (Publisher); Louis Léopold Boilly (Drafstman) / 'The gossips (Les Cancans)'. 1824. Illuminated, Crayon lithography on wove paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España. Author: LOUIS LEOPOLD BOILLY. FRANCOIS SERAPHIN DELPECH.Amsterdam, Vrijdag, Daniël, Four figures in Dutch costume, verso middle bottom - stamped, Top: 'Sea villagers'. Bottom: 'Zaankantsche and Markensche'., print, costume print, prints, images, height 231 mm, width 153 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1765 - 1765, print maker, printmaker, 1791 - 1791, fourth quarter 18th century, paper, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process)Pen, spring, and gray brush drawing by Johann David Schubert depicting a kneeling figure in 16th-century costume on a terrace before a city with antique buildings, late 18th to early 19th century.THE WANDERING HEIR, 1872 engravingΟμήρου Οδύσσεια. Ό Έρμής παραγγέλλει τή Καλυψώ ν άποστείλη τόν Όδυσσέα εις Ίθάκην - Homère Odyssée. Mercure ordonne à Calypso de renvoyer Ulysse à Itaque , Gods, Goddesses, Calypso Greek mythology, Hermes Greek deity. Nicholas Catsimpoolas CollectionA young man offers his hand to help a young woman cross a bridge over a brook, but she turns back as the bridge is too narrow. Engraving by W. Angus, 1793, after T. Stothard.No. 3/1871 by H. Demare. /! ... (IT)Munich, Wolf & Sohn, dr. C., Braun and Fr. Schneider, K., Geldern, Moolen, Hermann van der, Germany, Gehrig, Fröhlich, Ernst, Munchener platen, Volkskleederdragten, De Nederlanden, verso - stamped, Sheet with 4 representations of people in various historical Dutch costumes, including a couple from Zeeland, couples from North Holland and a mother with daughters from Friesland. A caption below each image. Numbered center bottom: No. 104. Numbered top right: 104., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 444 mm, width 348 mm, 1810 - 1882, maker, manufacturer, 1843 - 1920, paper, papier, wood engraving, colours, letterpress printing, German, Dutch, 1828 - 1892, seller, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, uitgever, Duits, printer, drukkerWood of Vincennes Louis-Philibert Debucourt (1755-1832). Bois de Vincennes promenade. Paris (16th arrest). Engraving (Color Aquatott). 1815.The Connoisseur 1780-1800 Thomas Rowlandson British The leading late-eighteenth century satirist Rowlandson here uses delicate shades of gray, touched with pale pink and blue, to mock the contrasting desires of youth and age. Seated before a steaming urn, symbolizing passion, an elderly art enthusiast eagerly examines a group of miniatures. At the same time, a comely young woman and her maid take advantage of his diverted attention. The gentleman's literal shortsightedness acts as a visual pun, pointing to his inability to judge character and suggesting that he also possesses little knowledge of art.. The Connoisseur 354225Jacques Callot (1592-1635). "Varied figures, the peasant turned to the left, a basket with her arm. Seventh number of a series of 16 pieces" (Lieure 204, Meaume 731). Etching. 1st half of the 16th century. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 99604-18 Etching, engravingMostowe according to the painting by Robert J. Beyschlag. A clip from a German magazine. Knesing, Theodor (1840 1927), Beyschlag, Robert Julius (1838 1903)Pickwick Papers, 'Before Mr. Pickwick distinctly knew what was the matter, he was surrounded by the whole body, and kissed by every one of them'Illustration to A Sentimental Journey: Episode: Maria and her Dog Sylvia, Edward Edwards, 1738-1806, British, undated, Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 4 × 2 3/8 inches (10.2 × 6 cm), courtship, dog (animal), genre subject, illustration, journey, leash, womanItem, pour avoir montre, au bal de la prefecture, le signe particulier que madame a dans le dos…. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866Lion, Ludwig.Fashionable woman in the sculpture gallery in the Louvre Museum, 1806. She wears a straw bonnet with feathers, shawl over a high-waisted dress. The discus thrower Discobolus of Myron and other Greek statues behind. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V. after an illustration by Francois Courboin from Octave Uzannes Fashion in Paris, William Heinemann, London, 1898.Charles Knight, 1743-c.1826, British, British Plenty, 1794. Stipple engraving, partially printed in color.Carnaval. Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866). Lithograph;The Extravagant Woman Does Not Perceive Her Circumstances Decaying 1776-1827 England. Pen and brown ink with brush and watercolor, over graphite, on ivory wove paper, tipped onto ivory wove paper . Thomas RowlandsonSo there! by Gill / Judith-Paris / Holopherne-GuillaumeMarie Antoinette's farewell to her daughter, Marie-Therese Charlotte, on a walk in the Jardin de Tivoli, 20 June 1791. Stipple copperplate engraving by Noel after an illustration by Sebastien Leroy from Marie Antoinette, Archiduchesse d'Autriche, Reine de France, chez le Fuel, Paris, 1815.''Valentine Receivers', 1875. Creator: H Johnson.Sheet music cover for: Krakowians and Masurians at a wedding in Ojów. Lemercier, Rose Joseph (Paryż ; zakład litograficzny ; 1827-post 1899), lithography atelier, Regnier, Claude (fl. 1840-1866), graphic artist, Zaleski, Antoni (1824-1885), draughtsman, cartoonist, Wilczyński, Jan Kazimierz (1806-1885), publisherPoster for MaÓtres de l'Poster. Charles Lucien LÈandre 1862ñ1934, French caricaturist and painter.How 'Or' What ! We only have three bulletsParis qui rit. Laughing Paris. ,These little ladies. Plate N7 (registered title (letter)) | 2nd suite of 1862-1863. (Title Title)Woodcut "A Spring Day in Paris, The Arc de Triomphe", yearbook "Moderne Kunst in Meisterholzschnitten", German for "modern art in masterful woodcuts", 1900Monnier, Henry Bonaventure (N.1799-06-07-D.1877-01-03), head of employment (registered title (letter)). Colored lithography, woven paper. Balzac house.Attack of the little Bastille Attack of the small Bastille ". Water-colored.Fantasia / Bordeaux publication. / N ° 6Proverbs, Chapter VII, verses 7, 10, 13, Print made by John Raphael Smith, 1752-1812, British, Published by James Birchall, active 1781-died in 1794, British, 1780, Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 14 1/8 × 10 3/16 inches (35.9 × 25.9 cm), Plate: 13 15/16 × 10 inches (35.4 × 25.4 cm), and Image: 12 7/8 × 9 15/16 inches (32.7 × 25.2 cm)Bei der Blumenschlacht in Nizza, Bataille de Fleurs, jährliches Ereignis im Rahmen des Karnevals von Nizza an der Côte d Azur. Während dieser Veranstaltung werden kunstvoll mit Blumen geschmückte Wagen durch die Stadt gefahren, hier um 1880, Frankreich, Historisch, authentisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated 1f-4904094Benjamin Thompson, Harpsichord Recital at Count Rumford's, Concord, New Hampshire, American, 1753-1814, c. 1800, watercolor on laid paperNicolas Schenker, or Schencker (1886-1954). "The forgotten". Etching. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 144604-7Young pair in a garden, Izaak Jansz. de Wit, after Joannes Pieter Visser Bender, 1806 print Top right: pl. III. Bottom right: bl. 99 Haarlem paper etching garden. fence, wall, paling. flowers: roseGustave Barry, Musée des moeurs en actions: La valse à Mabille, 1848-1882, chromolithograph, partly hand colored, on wove paper.Author Reading from a Manuscript to Four Ladies, Matthew Haughton, 1768-1821, British, undated, Watercolor and pen and brown ink; the figures cut out in silhouette and pasted down on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream card, Sheet: 4 × 9 inches (10.2 × 22.9 cm), author, chairs, genre subject, ladies, manuscript, reading, seatedQuadrilles--La Pastorelle an avant, 7th, 1820 - 1829, 1820 - 1829, (Questionable), London, Quadrilles, Etchings, Etching, colored, line border 20.5 x 31.2 cmParis, Bonnet, Louis Marin, Baudouin, Pierre Antoine, France, Le Rendez-Vous, Affectionate Couple, verso below - handwritten, A man and a woman are about to kiss. The man has his arms around the woman and has grasped her bare breast., print, engraving, prints, engravings, verso bottom center - stamped, Beaudoin pinxit Le rendes vous L. Bonnet sculpted 1771, height 315 mm, width 235 mm, 1736 - 1793-10-12, print maker, printmaker, 1771 - 1771, third quarter 18th century, paper, pastel method, color printing, French, 1723-10-17 - 1769-12-15, after, after painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher