M. de Balzac.
Julien del. Lith de Delarue.
Supplement au Voleur No.18. [n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph, sheet 240 x 155mm. 9½ x 6". Stains to left extremity.
Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels, short stories and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. For a French periodical.
[Ref: 15801] £65.00
Supplement au Voleur No.18. [n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph, sheet 240 x 155mm. 9½ x 6". Stains to left extremity.
Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels, short stories and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. For a French periodical.
[Ref: 15801] £65.00