![Les Musards de la Rue du Coq [Dawdlers in the Rue de Coq]](/internal/media/dispatcher/17109/preview)
![Les Musards de la Rue du Coq [Dawdlers in the Rue de Coq]](/internal/media/dispatcher/17109/full)
Les Musards de la Rue du Coq [Dawdlers in the Rue de Coq]
Primary
Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret
(Bordeaux, France, 1782–Paris, France, 1863)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1804
MediumPen lithograph on pale blue paper
DimensionsSheet: 12 × 19 9/16 in. (30.5 × 49.7 cm)
Image: 8 7/16 × 14 11/16 in. (21.4 × 37.3 cm)
Image: 8 7/16 × 14 11/16 in. (21.4 × 37.3 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Jack S. Blanton Curatorial Endowment Fund, 2008
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2008.142
On View
Not on viewFigures posed and dressed to represent the full range of Parisian citizens mill about and jostle to look at caricatures in the window of the popular print shop of publisher Aaron Martinet. The history of printmaking includes many works about the medium, from its processes to its social contexts. This is one of the most famous. It is also considered the first use of lithography for an artistic subject, as opposed to the utilitarian function for which it had been patented in 1798.
Exhibitions
![Démolitions pour le percement de la Rue des Écoles [Demolition for the Opening of the Rue des Écoles]](/internal/media/dispatcher/16393/thumbnail)
Reproduction after Charles Méryon
1926
![Tourelle, Rue de la Tixanderie [House with a Turret, Rue de la Tixanderie], from Eaux-fortes sur Paris [Etchings of Paris]](/internal/media/dispatcher/16359/thumbnail)
