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FLAGEOLET - CARICATURE
Bouchot, Frédéric (1798-1860)
"Etude sérieuse de la Marseillaise"
Paris, c. 1840. Total size in mat: 16" h x 13" w (40.6 cm x 33 cm). Printed on wove paper with text on verso as usual. Signed by the artist in the stone. Overall in very good condition.A French lithographic caricature by François Bouchot (1800–1842) which appeared in the Parisian journal Le Charivari, as number 11 of a series called Les bonnes Têtes Musicales. One sailor, holding a flageolet, stares at another sailor who is working hard to play another flageolet. Entitled Etude sèrieuse de la Marseillaise [Serious Study of the Marseillaise]
GPH-12369$150