Artist
Emile Desmaisons
Emile Desmaisons is a Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A Paris print-maker in the 1840s, Emile Desmaisons turned celebrity faces into lithographs for the boulevard audience. One surviving sheet, Mlle Laprairie Pas Grec (15 June 1844), shows the tight-corseted dancer caught mid-pose, her feathers slightly ruffled, while the caption punned on her last name. The print was sold at the corner of the Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, where street hawkers slid sheets under café doors.
Look next at the same sheet’s reverse: a second state printed in ochre that collectors prize for the extra shadow under her chin.
Works by Emile Desmaisons
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