Mesangere Collection (page 2)

Fashionable woman feeding her pet spaniel
A fashionable woman at the dinner table feeds her pampered spaniel Azor with a chicken wing, the chambermaid eats a herring from a plate on her knees

The roller coaster at Belleville, 1812
The roller coaster at Belleville with its five cars riding a distance of 600 feet in 9 or 10 seconds. A fashionable woman in plumed bonnet, shawl and parasol watches from the terrace

A woman is pampered by her staff
A woman is pampered by her seamstress, her clothes seller, her hairdresser and two chambermaids. As Montesquieu said, For one man to live deliciously, one hundred others must work tirelessly

Rollercoaster in the Jardin Baujon, early 19th century. Fashionable society enjoying the aerial walks, with cars pulled up the central ramp before riding fast chutes to left and right

Munito the wonder dog performing card tricks, 1815
Munito the wonder dog performing card tricks for a fashionable audience, 1815. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Ladies and gentlemen share coffee and rolls
Le Dejeuner. Gentlemen in coat tails and breeches and ladies in veils and dresses share a breakfast of coffee and bread. Great familiarity reigns in the morning, one has no time to become ceremonial

Merveilleuses and incroyables dancing the waltz, a newly popular dance imported from Germany. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

The rollercoaster at Roule, Paris, early 19th century
A gentleman helps a woman step down from a car after a descent down the rollercoaster at Roule (Place de Ternes). Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Roller coaster at the Barriere du Roule, Paris
Roller coaster at the Barriere du Roule (Place de Ternes, Paris). Fashionable women in bonnets and shawls riding cars down the rollercoaster

Street entertainer balancing on his head on a table. Accompanied by a fiddler and a young boy dancing a jig. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Street entertainer performing on a horn and violin. After removing his huge glasses from his nose, the old geezer blows on his horn (sarbacane) and plays the violin, grimacing all the time

Bride examining the contents of her marriage basket. Her bridesmaids show her lace, jewelry, diaments and finery. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Jacques de Falaise, street entertainer who ate anything. He is shown eating a live mouse, holding a snake, while an assistant receives a dagger and rose from the audience

Street performer drumming with a violinist
Drummer performing tricks with drumsticks while beating a drum, accompanied by a violinist. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Family of street entertainers performing in Paris, 1815
Woman balancing on a candlestick on a table, while a child walks on its hands. Later, Madame Herculanus fixes two anchors in curling papers to her hair

Street entertainer performing tricks with a baton
Street entertainer using a baton to remove a coin from a womans nose without touching her nose. Audience of fashionable women in bonnets, shawls and dresses with frills

Indian sword swallower in Paris, 1816. An assistant holds a sword to show its length (18 inches), and another takes something from a box of tricks

Indian jugglers in Paris, 1816
Indian jugglers, 1816. The man in the centre balances a whip between his eyes, spins rings on his toes and fingers, and threads pearls on a rope with his tongue

Troubadour playing on six instruments, 1815
Troubadour playing on six instruments in front of Prussian and Scots soldiers, 1815. By moving his head, elbows and knees, he plays pan pipes, mandolin, drum, triangle

An organ grinder and a poodle with spinning machine before an audience of fashionable women in bonnets with plumes, shawls and lace dresses

Savoyard puppeteer performing with fife and drum
Savoyard boy with fife and drum makes his puppets dance in time to the music by moving his knees. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

English fashions and military uniforms, 1815. One woman on the right wears French-influenced fashions, while talking with a hussar and dragoon

French fashions and English uniforms, 1815. Two French courtesans in white frilled dresses are approached by English soldiers, dragoons and hussars

A Parisian woman dressing. A merchant displays an elegantly frilled dress, while shopgirls fix her bonnet and bring fabric

Fashionable women in decollete dresses playing hide and seek
Fashionable women in decollete dresses playing the game of hide and seek in a garden. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Women playing a portable game of fate, while
Les Oublies. A woman in the shade of a tree eats oublies (pastries, also known as plaisirs), while two women and a girl spin an arrow on a portable barrel as a man in gaiters looks

Flower-mania. Woman with as many flowers on her dress and hair as there are in the basket and vase near her. The ridiculous abundance of every kind of flowers on the dress

The old young man. Old dandy in jacket with high collar, bicorn, tight breeches and hose, has a cravat ties by a young shopgirl

Old woman trying on a pink bonnet in a shop, circa 1815
Old woman trying on a pink bonnet in front of three young shopgirls, Women appear to have sworn to lie about youth up to their last breath

Caricature of English costumes, circa 1815. Men with flowerpot hats, long coats and trousers worn over boots, women in shawls with tassles

Caricature of French and English costumes, circa 1815. The small size of English ladies hats, the excessive length of their bodices and mean cut of their dresses contrast with our Parisian fashions

Egoism personified. This gentleman occupies six chairs on his own, and without regard to the arrival of strollers, he stretches out an army boot with spur and waves his whip

Caricature of English costumes, circa 1814. Men and women in ill-fitting, badly shaped dresses, hats and coats. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Three fashionable women in bonnets with tall floral displays, holding a green shawl to form a living fruit basket. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

English military uniforms, Napoleonic era
Caricature of English military uniforms, Napoleonic era, Hussar with flared trousers worn over calf-high boots. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Caricature of English fashions in Paris, 1814. Man in flowerpot hat, women in bottle-shaped gowns. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Caricature of English fashion
Caricature of English costumes. A group of tourists from England on a trip to Paris: the men in flowerpot and stovepipe hats, ill-fitting riding coats and breeches, women in tight bodice dresses

Fashionable people playing the Bridge of Love
Fashionable people playing the parlour game of Bridge of Love. For this forfeit, the man kneels on the floor and the lady who nominated him sits on his back

Seated blind mans buff. A dandy in Regency fashion guesses the identity of the woman in muslin dress who provides his chair

Fashionable people playing the Capucine kissing game. The players must sit back to back with their arms entwined and endeavor to give each other a kiss on the lips by their contortions

Hairdresser on stilts pulling a womans hair to the ceiling
One must suffer for beauty. A hairdresser on stilts pulls a womans hair to the ceiling in the Chinese style. The hairstyle a la Chinoise is definitely a major makeover

A Parisian woman getting dressed in the Chinese style. Our artist has turned three magots (grotesque porcelain figures) into makeup artists eager to transform a beautiful Parisienne into a Chinese

The vapours, or the day of memories
Les vapeurs, the day of memories. A woman drinks tea on the sofa while her maid picks up bills strewn over the floor. Kind husband, would you heal the painful nerves of your wife

Fashionable couple running in the rain. The gallant Mr de Boissec gives his coat and top hat to his lady, and carries her hat in his kerchief and her dog under his arm

Woman of the Chausee-d Antin in the Chinese fashion
Woman from the Chaussee-d Antin in the Chinese fashion. She wears a tall bonnet with flowers and ribbons over her piled up hairstyle a la Chinoise, ruff collar, tunic with bells, shawl tied in a bow

Woman in muslin dress with fichu wimple, and perkale skirt
Woman in a muslin dress with frills, fichu wimple, and perkale skirt. The headdress is an accessory, and its height should never equal the length of the face

Woman in velvet bonnet and long carrick coat with pelerines
Woman in velvet bonnet with plumes, long carrick coat in wool with two pelerines (shoulder capes). There is nothing lighter, softer and warmer than a cashmere shawl

Man in long carrick coat with five pelerines or capes. Our young men shorten their jackets but lengthen their coats. The coat is long, heavy and awkward

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