A Satirical Scene

A Satirical Scene  is an original modern artwork realized by Edmond Lavrate in the second half of the XX century.

Original colored lithograph.

Hand-signed on the lower right corner.

On the lower central margin, the writing: " Cette charmante petite marquise du Goguenot depuis son mariage avec le comte de la Ratière n'a encore obtenu ni bonheur, ni satisfaction; elle m'a confié ses peines..... et ensuite imploré mon ministère pour la consoler ".

Good conditions.

Satirical work depicting several religious figures laughing around a table.

The work wasrealized by Edmond Lavrate (Orleans, 1829 - Paris, 1888),  a designer, lithographer, anticlerical  French inventor of advertisements and illustrated questions.   Lavrate then devoted himself to comic watercolor, through which he particularly targeted the military.  With the advent of the Republic, the cartoonist attacked the figure of Napoleon III, favorite target Republicans since Sedan.  One of his watercolors, with the caption " Badinguet going to war, Rolled Sedan ", is seized in 1872 at Leloup, print dealer, rue de la Lune in Paris.  According to Guillaume Doizy, " In addition to the republican anticlerical political caricature, Lavrate invents the anticlerical caricature of morals, by attacking a clergy, which, in its sociological diversity, will become the target of the free-thinking press after 1900. Of the religious question, Lavrate appears as a forerunner.  We understand why he was, after 1900, extensively reissued by the militant press ".