112/ A voyage to Cythera (4): with illustrators and caricaturists

Within the foregoing submit 111/ of this collection it was demonstrated that the phrase Cythère was nonetheless very a lot unfold in publications all through the French nineteenth and twentieth centuries (1, Figs.3 & 4). Subsequently, Cythère turned inspiration for illustrators and caricaturists within the flourishing enterprise of all sorts of journals (2), reporting concerning the leisure market, social tradition and politics. The photographs, collected chronologically from 1863 to 1962 in a Google Album, together with all metadata (Fig.1), and in a Listing (Desk 1), are proof of the persistent survival of legendary Cythère in French cultural life.


*Fig.1 Google Album – Hundred years ‘Cythera: illustrations and caricatures’*

Desk 1 : Listing of collected illustrations and caricatures

Ref	Yr		Publication	Brief title ‘…Cythère’	Artist
1		1864	ebook	Les Cythères Parisiennes	ROPS
2		1868	Le Chiavari	La Bourse de Cythère	HADOL/ DESTOUCHES
3		1869	Le Monde illustré	Ligne H:..ou le départ …	RAFTY
4		1876	L’Eclipse	Le départ – Le retour	GILL/ LEFMAN
5 … 11		1878-80	Assortment Noilly	2° Société 3° Académie 4° Hippodrome 5° Départ 6° Pesage 8° Toilette 9° Balançoire	ROPS
12		*1880*	Coll. Pincebourde	Armée de Cythère	STA
13		1883	Le Journal amusant	Le bal des …	FEYEN-PERRIN
14		1883	La Caricature	Le retour de Cythère	ROBIDA/ YVES & BARRET
15		1883	La Caricature	…départ à toute heure	ROBIDA
16		1887	Le Journal amusant	Route de Cythère	STOP
17		1888	Théâtre du Chat Noir	…à Montmartre’	SOMM
18		1890	La Caricature	Promenade à Cythère	SANDATI
19		1890	Le Journal amusant	…Cythère, en voiture!	BLASS/ MICHELET
20		1895	Le Journal amusant	‘unis-vers-Cythère’	HENRIOT
21		1896	Bibliophiles …	Cour et tribunal de…	ROPS
22		1897	L’année féminine	Watteau partage …	BOUTET
23		1898	Le rire	…des comédiens pour …	LEANDRE
24		1898	Assortment Jaquet	L’ embarquement pour ..	BALLURIAU
25		1900	Le rire	Cythère et Madagascar	GERBAULT
26		1900	Moulin Rouge	En route pour Cythère	PEAN
27		1902	Le Journal amusant	A Cythère	GUILLAUME
28		1902	Galerie Napoléon	L’embarquement pour …	PREJELAN
29		1903	La Caricature	…(bataillon) de …	GEORGE- EDWARD
30		1904	Société parisienne …	… Dix minutes d’arrêt!	ABEILLE
31		1904	L’Illlustration	L’embarquement pour …	LOSQUES
32		1904	Le Journal amusant	Mamzelle Vénus …	GERBAULT
33		1904	Le Frou-Frou	L’Armée de Cythère	ABEILLE
34		1906	Le Rire	À Cythère	SOMM
35		1909	La Vie Parisienne	De Cythëre-Les-Bains	LEONNEC
36		1910	La Vie Parisienne	Le retour de Cythère	HEROUARD
37		1911	La Vie Parisienne	A Cythère-les-Bains	LEONNEC
38		1912	La Vie Parisienne	..pour Cythère-les-Bains	LEONNEC
39		1913	Lyon, musée	Tous unis vers Cythère	DUCLOS
40		1916	La Vie Parisienne	De Cythère à Paris	WEGENER
41		1917	Le Régiment	S’embarquer pour …	ARMANGOL
42		1917	Version DIX	Embarquement pour …	?
43		1918	Paris Lapère	Depart pour Cythere	?
44		1919	Fantasio	Il va faire froid à ….’	MARTIN
45		1919	Musée Carnavalet	Le débarquement de…e	SEM
46		1919	Le Journal amusant	Sur le chemin de …	MIRANDE
47		1922	Coll. « Les Amis … »	Les Princesses de …	VAN MAELE
48		1922	La Vie Parisienne	Le Passeur de Cythère	MARTIN
49		1926	Fantasio	L’embarquement pour …	LABOCCETTA
50		1929	La Vie Parisienne	En route pour Cythère	VALLEE
51		1929	La Vie Parisienne	Vers Cythère	KUHN-REGNIER
52		1932	Candide	L’embarquement pour …	GUILLAUME
53		*1937*	La Vie Parisienne,	‘Ma Capitaine’	LEONNEC
54		1937	La Vie Parisienne	Embarquement pour …?.	FOURNIER
55		1946	Les Lettres françaises	…exercices … pour …	FLIP
56		1948	V : journal illustré	L’ Humour LOUIS XV	DAVID
57		*1962*	Coll. Historien d’artwork	Embarquement pour …	VICTOR

The Listing exhibits that 80% of the collected photographs had been revealed in – largely – weekly journals, highlighted in purple (2). Further feedback concerning the historic background of chosen photographs are helpful to grasp their which means or significance.

· Ref 1‘Les Cythères Parisiennes’ is without doubt one of the many profitable ebook illustrations by Félicien ROPS (1833-1898). The ebook of 1864 by Delvau tells about 64 ballrooms (‘Bals de Paris’) and cabarets, with Cythéréennes – girls predisposed to like and pleasure. A number of preparatory sketches of dancing persons are recognized (3).

Fig.2

Paris-Cythèreturned an idea, largely disseminated within the press and in books (Figs.2 & 3).

Fig.2 Etude de Moeurs Parisiennes – On line casino de Paris – Moulin-Rouge – Folies-Bergère – Bullier – Elysée de Montmartre

par Maurice Delsol (Paris, 1893) (1)

Fig. 3 Incidence of ‘Paris-Cythère’ in books

in line with Google Ngram and Gallicagram

· Ref 2 Le Charivari, the well-known satirical journal, animated greater than hundred years from 1832-to 1937, revealed these two footage entitled La Bourse de Cythère’ in 1868 with a large number of feminine figures and subscripts about stock-market actions (Actionnaires/ Courtiers marrons / La hausse / La baisse / and so forth.). Created in 1724, the Bourse de Paris was a spot the place the presence of ladies was prohibited till hundred years later in 1967 !

· Ref 5…Ref 11 These seven colored drawings by Félicien ROPS, all with topic Cythère, created in 1878-81, are a part of a collection of ten (dizain), commissioned along with ‘cent croquis pour réjouir les honnêtes gens’ by the bibliophile Jules Noilly (4). They had been dispersed ten years later when Noilly died.

· Ref 12 The relation ‘Cythère / navy’ is an everyday subject among the many caricatures: see Refs 29, 33, 41, 42.

· Ref 14 This cowl image 1883 of La Caricature, a brief dwelling weekly journal (1881-1904), refers to a replica of WATTEAU’s well-known portray, however known as right here ‘Retour de Cythère’ and located within the attic (sic) of the Musée du Louvre. The sturdy satirical subscript is a sign that this discovery was cripplingly mentioned within the press, however no additional hint may very well be discovered.

· Ref 21 This illustration by Félicien ROPS of 1896, with title ‘Les droits des femmes– KYPRIZ Cour et tribunal de Cythère‘, is certainly one of eight in a luxurious distinctive version of a ebook devoted to girls, love and wonder.

Fig.4

This picture (Fig.4) shouldn’t be interpreted as a caricature, however reasonably as a manifestation of ROPS’ imaginative and prescient: courtroom and tribunal must be held beneath the aegis of Aphrodite (Kypris). A letter to Louise DANSE, a younger artist he admired, explains his judgement concerning the male gender … (5, p.87-88).

Ref 23 ‘L’embarquement des comédiens pour Cythère’ in Le rire, N°196 4°année 6 Août 1898 , is exceptional as a result of the subscripts designate by their correct identify greater than 15 actors, music composers, poets, artists, all depicted in a most caricatural means . ‘Le Rire : journal humoristique’ revealed from 1894 till 1971 was essentially the most profitable of all of the “Journaux Humoristiques”, with glorious drawings by distinguished artists. ‘Le Rire’ was notably informative about music halls and café-cabarets. In a listing of 28 Théâtres et Live shows in Paris,‘Le Rire’, 1 Decembre 1894: La Cigale, a café-cabaret just lately based, proposes in Decembre 1894 ‘Le Royaume de Cythère’. No additional particulars nor any iconography may very well be discovered … title and its topic perhaps impressed by ‘ La Carte du Royaume d’amour en l’isle de Cythère’ attributed to Tristan l’Hermite (1659)? There’s additionally the poem of Jean-Baptiste Joseph Willart de Grécourt (1683-1743) « L’île de Cythère: (…) Level de nouveaux impôts – Dans l’île de Cythère (…) Level de nouvel édit – Dans l’île de Cythère ; La seule loi qu’on swimsuit – N’ordonne que de faire – L’amour La nuit et le jour « (6).

Ref 26 The cabaret ‘Moulin Rouge’ organised a ‘Grand défilé allégorique En route pour Cythère’ in October 1900.

Fig.5 (6)

A contest with the opposite well-known cabaret ‘Folies-Bergère’? The latter had a fantastic success with Cythère, le délicieux ballet… since April 1900 (Fig.5)

On 28 July 1900, Le Rire experiences concerning thea centesimal efficiency of « le plus ravissant » ballet ‘Cythère’ at Folies-Bergère .

· Ref 29 King Edouard VII, aka Soiled Bertie, had a particular attachment to the town of Paris, and its pleasures…therefore, his comment throughout his official go to in 1903, to the President of France who forgot to parade additionally the bataillon de Cythère…

Fig.6 Occurence of ‘bataillon de Cythère’ in books

in line with Google Ngram and Gallicagram

Fig. 7 (7)

The time period was for instance the title of a small nameless ebook ‘Le Bataillon de Cythère’ in 1902 (Fig.7) and a music composition ‘Le Bataillon de Cythère’ by F.-D. Marchetti, carried out by the Orchestre Royal Napolitain within the Avant-Lobby of the Théâtre de l’Opéra in 1903 (8). The infamous courtisane Liane de Pougy, was « une des belles minettes les plus en practice du joyeux bataillon de Cythère » (9, §14).

NOTES

1. Put up of 23 Octobre 2022 ‘111/ A voyage to Cythera (3): amongst publishers and their pretend imprints ‘

2. GALLICA has digitized a whole lot of Journals of all form. All these categorized as ‘Les hebdomadaires’ and ‘Presse satirique’ had been explored, however in lots of circumstances not all points can be found. Therefore, the gathering offered on this submit is much from exhaustive.

3. J.-F. Bory ‘Félicien Rops – l’oeuvre graphique complet’Arthur Hubschmid, Paris 1977.

4. See a prolonged description about this fee in ‘Les Cent légers croquis sans prétention’, exhibition 12/09 – 11/10/1998, Musée Félicien Rops, Namur

5. Félicien Rops, Mémoires pour nuire à l’histoire artistique de mon temps. Choix de textes et lecture d’Hélène Védrine. Bruxelles, Labor, coll. Espace Nord n°146, 1998, 377 p., in poor health.

See additionally: Lettre de Félicien Rops à Louise Danse, s.l.n.d., or « Lettres à une femme », in : La Vogue, nouvelle série , t. II, 1899, p. 10-11

6. See B Buffard-Moret ‘QUAND LA POÉSIE PART POUR CYTHÈRE – De la fascination du lieu au pouvoir des mots’ p.40-58 in ‘L’île: photographs, imaginaire et fiction’ Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras (2014).

7. ‘Le bataillon de Cythère’,edited by P. Fort (Paris, 1902, 62 pp.) with cowl drawing by Granvelle (?).

8. Théâtre de l’Opéra : bals masqués, carnaval 1903 monographie imprimée [8] p.

9. Nathalie Coutelet Les Folies-Bergère : une pornographie “select” Romantisme 2014/1 (n° 163), 111-124.

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109/ A voyage toCythera (1): amongst poets, painters and musicians

August 30, 2022