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Celestials
1883 Locomotives
Le Bon Genre
The Bon Genre was one of the earliest series of prints to document the social trends and leisure activities of contemporary Parisians. It is notable in that it is the most important fashion portfolio of its time because it pictures, through its caricatures, the rise of the modern city of Paris with its bourgeois fashions, recreations and dating customs. Its popularity influenced the fashion plate journals that followed as well as the satirical albums so typical of mid-19th century France. Overall, Le Bon Genre bears witness to the historic and colorful episode of Parisian social history at the end of the French revolution which saw the rise of a new "republican era."
The
images here are from the hard to find 1927
reissue edition edited by Albert Levy.
An open-air performance in Paris.
An acrobat stands on his head on a table, while a man seated on a
tree-stump fiddles and a boy dances a jig. more...
Le Joueur de Bagueltes
A street performer brandishes his drumsticks, while more...
l'Equilibre
du Chandelier
Featuring a Pierrot type clown steadying the table that a woman is balancing on a candlestick, more...
Le
Grimacier
A street performer playing a violin and trumpet while pulling a face, watched by four ladies wearing hats. more...
Les
Petitea Marionnettes
Three women and a man strolling watch a street show with a boy playing a pipe and more ....
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