3. August Desperet
(?-1865)

Allons vite, des commissaires (Molière : "L’Avare" )

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Desperet, Molière : "L’Avare"

Allons vite, des commissaires (Molière : "L’Avare" )

Lithograph, 1833-34, 233 x 275 mm., Bibliothèque National Inventaire 9, pl. 270. A very fine impression on white wove paper with good margins. The image shows a scene from Molière’s comedy, usually called in English “The Miser,” but the figure on stage here is clearly Louis Philippe and the print is a satire on the avarice of “the citizen king.” Desperet, a contemporary of Daumier and one of many great caricaturists of the time, was born in Lyon and worked frequently in conjunction with Grandville.