HENRIOT (JEAN HENRI MAIGROT DIT, DIT AUSSI PIF)... Lot n° 359

Parisiennes et parisiennes. Unique album containing 24 original signed watercolor drawings by Henriot and 24 humorous handwritten biographies of artists corresponding to the back of each drawing, by Henriot. Pet. In-folio oblong. Finely executed in 1892. Half-binding (disbound). Titled spine. Painters, actors, authors, composers, singers, librettists, represented in a lively Parisian setting: François Coppée, Ludovic Halévy (business card signed LH pasted into biography), Anna Judic, Ernest Reyer (autograph handwritten letter signed E. Reyer pasted into biography), Coquelin Ainé, Suzanne Reichemberg, Henri Meilhac, Émile Zola, Sarah Bernhardt, Victorien Sardou (a handwritten autograph letter signed by Victorien Sardou is attached), Madame Théo, Alphonse Daudet, Yvette Guilbert (business card signed by Yvette Guilbert pasted into the biography), Édouard Detaille, Paul Bourget, Victor Capoul (autograph handwritten letter signed V. Capoul), Jane Harding, Thérésa, Jeanne Granier, Pierre Véron, Grille d'Égoût and la Goulue (on the same drawing), Pailleron, Mademoiselle BARTET, Alexandre Dumas