Six Tableaux de Compte Calix

Paris: Un Bureau du Journal Les Modes Parisiennes, 1865. Parisian High Society"

COMPTE-CALIX, Francois-Claudius. Six Tableaux de Compte Calix. Scènes Coloriées de la Bonne Compagnie Parisienne. Paris: Un Bureau du Journal Les Modes Parisiennes, [1865].

Oblong folio (10 5/8 x 15 inches; 270 x 381 mm.). Lithograph title-page and six fine hand colored engraved plates by A. Portier after Compte-Calix.

Modern half dark red morocco over marbled boards, smooth spine lettered in gilt. A very fine copy of this very uncommon title.

OCLC & KVK locate just two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Bibiliotheque d'Art et Archeologie (Switzerland) and the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana (Spain). Interestingly the Bibiliotheque d'Art et Archeologie give two dates of publication, 1840 and 1865, whilst the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana give the date of publication as 1860.
Colas and Lipperheide both give the date of publication as ca. 1865.

Francois Claudius Compte-Calix (1813-1880) was a French painter, illustrator, and lithographer best known for his refined genre scenes and fashion illustrations, particularly those portraying elegant life in 18th- and 19th-century France. He Studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, a notable center for academic and decorative arts in the 19th century. He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon from 1840 to 1878, gaining attention for his delicate, romanticized depictions of aristocratic and bourgeois life. "Six Tableaux de la Bonne Compagnie Parisienne" (c. 1865), is one of his most notable suites with hand-colored engravings showing Parisian high society in stylish settings.

The plates:

1. Le Traineau (The Sleigh)
2. L'hotel du Faubourg St. Germain (The Hotel Faubourg Saint-Germain)
3. La Visite de Voisinage (The Neighborhood Visit)
4. Le Salon de Loge à l'Opéra (The Dressing Room at the Opera)
5. L'Exposition d'Horticulture (The Horticulture Exhibition)
6. Une bonne Action (A Good Deed)

Colas 676; Lipperheide 1173; Not in Bobins.