“HAVE ALL THE PALAYEURS RETURNED FROM PARIS?” - Lot 18

“HAVE ALL THE PALAYEURS RETURNED FROM PARIS?” LE PETIT (Alfred). “Have all the street sweepers returned from Paris? — Yeah! — What about their brooms? — Nope. — Mein Gott? Then we’re doomed! — Yeah!!” Plate from the Actualités series, No. 3. Caricature depicting two helmeted Prussian soldiers, one with a bird perched on his helmet holding a broom, in a satire based on a pun between “balayeurs” (sweepers) and “balais” (brooms). Black lithograph. Paris, F. Wentzel, Printer and Publisher, 65 Rue Saint-Jacques. Signed on the plate: A. Le Petit. Quite numerous foxing spots, particularly in the margins; slight general browning.

Estimation:€60

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