La Journée d'une actrice, ou Douze scènes de jour et de nuit

Paris: Sazerac et Duval, 1826. The Day of an Actress, or Twelve Scenes of Day and Night
Twelve Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates

WATTIER, Édouard. [La Journée d'une actrice, ou Douze scènes de jour et de nuit, Lithographiées par Ed. Wattier. Paris: Sazerac et Duval, 1826].

First edition. Large folio (14 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches; 362 x 267 mm.). Twelve hand-colored lithographed plates. Plates lithographed by Engelmann & Langlumé. Bound without the four leaves of text.

Mid twentieth century olive green cloth with red leather spine label ruled and lettered in gilt, plain endpapers. A few minor marginal tears. Front and rear free endpapers a little chipped on fore-margin. An excellent example of this very rare suite.

A charming suite of twelve hand colored lithographs depicting the life in the day of an actress from 10:00 am to midnight.

Rare. OCLC & KVK locate just two examples in libraries and institutions worldwide: Boston Public Library (MA, US); Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany)

Note: According to AKL Online it is a matter of dispute whether the drawings are by Édouard Wattier
or by his brother Émile.

Édouard Wattier (1793-1871). Brother of Émile Wattier, he was a printmaker and painter/draughtsman.

Émile Wattier (1800-1868). Brother of Édouard, he was also a painter, illustrator, engraver and lithographer.

The plates are captioned:
"10 heures du matin. Conseil de toilette"
"Onze heures du matin. Visite au Journaliste"
"Midi. Réception de l'Auteur"
"Deux heures après midi. Comité de Lecture"
"3 heures après midi. Les amateurs à la répétition"
"Quatre heures du soir. Promenade sentimentale au bois"
"Cinq heures du soir. Diner au rocher de Cancale"
"7 heures du soir. Préparatifs de triomphe" (small chip/paper fault to lower fore-margin)
"8 heures du soir. Entrée en scène"
"10 heures du soir. Disgrace!!"
"Onze heures du soir. Consolations"
"Minuit. Repos."

Lipperheide 3694.