Musiciens de la Chapelle. M. l'Abbé Loup. M. Montaugibet, premier Trompette. aiv: Ah! le bel oiseau maman. Lithograph by Benard after Charles Joseph Traviès de Villers depicting a rather large gentleman in formal dress, half-length, playing a tiny toy trumpet, music in hand

[Paris]: Aubert ... Jd. la caricatur, Galerie véro dodat, 1835. 230 x 135 mm. Signed with initials in the stone. On wove paper. Text to verso.

Slightly worn, browned and soiled; light horizontal crease; small circular handstamp to blank upper right corner. Traviès de Villers (1804-1859) was a contemporary and colleague of Daumier. This caricature was originally published in Le Charivari, an illustrated magazine published in Paris from 1832 to 1937 specializing in political cartoons, reviews, and satires.