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New Orleans Characters

Lot 37
16.06.2023 16:00UTC -05:00
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$ 7 560
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 965111
Lot 37 | New Orleans Characters
Estimate value
$ 6 000 – 8 000
New Orleans Characters
Leon Frémaux, 1876
FRÉMAUX, Leon J. (c.1820-1898). New Orleans Characters. [New Orleans:] Peychaud & Garcia, 1876.

A rare New Orleans color-plate book. "Costume books and illustrations of typical trades and occupations, so common in European color plate books, are comparatively rare in America. This book of New Orleans street characters may be the best example of the genre printed in the United States. It is not surprising that it was produced in the most European of American cities" (Stamped with a National Character). The depictions include vendors of rice fritters, apples, ice cream; a chimney sweep; stock speculators and cotton and sugar dealers, etc. Spanish, Native, Black, and Anglo people are all variously depicted and Frémaux's bias is evident. Still, this work provides a rare glimpse at the dress, tools of the trade, and a sense of daily life in Reconstruction New Orleans. In this copy, the names of several of the subjects have been penciled in. The coffee vendor was apparently named Rose Nicaud, and the auction drummer was Placide J. Spears. America Pictured to the Life 76; Bennett, p.44; Howes F-362 ("b"); Stamped with a National Character 93;

Folio (345 x 240mm). Lithographed title with hand-colored oval vignette (slight soiling), 16 hand-colored lithographed plates, most of the street vendors with captions in Creole and English. Modern half leatherette preserving older cloth covers, gilt-lettered.Fremaux, Leon
New Orleans
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