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
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.