..Rosier.. from: Pantheon Charivarique

 

Benjamin Roubaud

  1811 - 1847 (biography)

c. 1840  

lithograph 

10 3/8 x 8 5/8" image 

stone signed, lower left 

 

Panthéon Charivarique, Auteurs Dramatiques, Le Charivari 

 

cream wove 

proof, printed "sur blanc" 

Bauger & Cie; Societe de Journal le Charivari 

14971 

$300.00 

A caricature of the French libbretist Joseph-Bernard Rosier (1804-1880) by Roubaud, who signed his prints with his first name 'Benjamin.' This lithograph, printed "sur blanc" is from the 'Pantheon Charivarique' a group of 100 portraits published by the French journal 'Charivari' and printed by Aubert. This is from the series 'Auteurs Dramatiques'.