Caran d'Ache - Les Courses dans l'Antiquité - 1888

Caran d'Ache [Pseudonym of Emmanuel Poiré (1858-1909)] Les Courses dans l’Antiquité Paris, Plon, Nourrit et Cie, without date (1888) quarto in the Italian style (33.5 x 25 cm); 63 pp. (complete) Sent with Mondial Relay. Original edition illustrated by Caran d'Ache with very beautiful caricatures colored with stenciling, sometimes on two pages, from Antiquity to 1900. Publisher’s cloth binding in yellow and red percaline illustrated with black drawings. Binding signed Lenègre. A parody of the manners and customs of the 19th century where Antiquity is no longer a factor of idealization but of causticity: The Luncheon on the Grass illustrated by fat matrons, the procession of the fallen Gods before a crowd of spectators. Politically charged album in the caricatures of Louise Michel, the Red Virgin, or also of Baron de Rothschild.

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