#courboin

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An Official Ball in the Strasbourg Theater, 1805 by Francois Courboin.

This and many other fashion plates are at the Brown University Library.

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Le jour du grand prix de Paris. Les courses (1895). Monument esthématique du XIXe siècle : les modes de Paris, variations du goût et de l'esthétique de la femme, 1797-1897. By Octave Uzanne. Illustrations by François Courboin. Paris, 1898. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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The Challenge Etching by François Courboin, after Félicien Rops, 1895.

Two women in long white dress on a stair, the woman up the stairs pointing at the one below, a group of people behind; illustration to Erastène Ramiro's Supplément au catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé de Félicien Rops (Paris: Floury, 1895); after a watercolour by Rops.

© The Trustees of the British Museum

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Le nouveau sport de la fin du siècle. Mesdames les Bicyclistes (1896). Monument esthématique du XIXe siècle : les modes de Paris, variations du goût et de l'esthétique de la femme, 1797-1897. By Octave Uzanne. Illustrations by François Courboin. Paris, 1898. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Le charmeur d'oiseaux. Le Nouveau Jardin des Tuileries (1880). Monument esthématique du XIXe siècle : les modes de Paris, variations du goût et de l'esthétique de la femme, 1797-1897. By Octave Uzanne. Illustrations by François Courboin. Paris, 1898. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Le square du palais des tuileries (1870). Monument esthématique du XIXe siècle : les modes de Paris, variations du goût et de l'esthétique de la femme, 1797-1897. By Octave Uzanne. Illustrations by François Courboin. Paris, 1898. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Les Spectateurs de la Comète — Sur les boulevards (1857). Monument esthématique du XIXe siècle : les modes de Paris, variations du goût et de l'esthétique de la femme, 1797-1897. By Octave Uzanne. Illustrations by François Courboin. Paris, 1898. Bibliothèque nationale de France

“- Adelaide, Adelaide.. I think I can see the comet coming!!… - Oh my God… this is the end of the world…. how annoying. They promised it wouldn’t come until June 13!,” plate 31 from Croquis Parisiens, lithograph by Honoré Victorin Daumier, France. February 18,1857. The Art Institute of Chicago

After the Comet of Charles V failed to reappear in the 1840s, as astronomers predicted, a Belgian almanac writer announced that it would arrive on June 13, 1857, when it would collide with the earth and end all life. The prediction spread across Europe, but its effect was particularly pronounced in Paris, where terrified families began to prepare for the end. The situation was ripe for mockery, and it also enabled Daumier to compose a variety of night scenes, which he particularly enjoyed drawing. In this print, he devotes particular care to depicting how the candle illuminates his panicked Parisians.

Text from The Art Institute of Chicago

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La terrasse du Luxembourg (1885). Monument esthématique du XIXe siècle : les modes de Paris, variations du goût et de l'esthétique de la femme, 1797-1897. By Octave Uzanne. Illustrations by François Courboin. Paris, 1898. Bibliothèque nationale de France