Pigal Estampes Humoristique Vers 1840 Médecine Médecin Sciences Caricature Refm18

EDME JEAN PIGAL (1794 - 1872)

Pair of Lithographed color prints framed under glass,( to embellish your cabinet of curiosities).

Era: circa 1840.

1) Society scenes: ça va mal! Doctor treating a poor man

Signed lower right Pigal. Lithographed by Langlume.

2) Popular scenes: ça va bien! Doctor treating a rich man.

Signed lower right Pigal . Lithographed by Langlume .

The fable evoking the doctor for the poor: dispatched free of charge and the one for the rich, attentive and benevolent, paid consultations of course.

The artist was a pupil of Jean Antoine Gros and caricatured French society with bonhomie:the cries of Paris, street urchins, the working class, servants, doctors, bourgeois and justiciables.

His contemporaries being Daumier or even Gavarni.

Condition: In its used condition, some foxing on the lithographs.

Giltwood frame, wear from use ( see photos).

Dimensions : 28 x 24 cm each.

Depth : 3 cm both .

Weight : 1 kilogram .

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