Danse Chinoise (Chinese Dance), plate 9 from Voyage en Chine (Trip to China)

Inscriptions

Numbered, in image, lower right: 604; inscribed, in plate, upper center: VOYAGE EN CHINE.; inscribed, in plate, upper right: 9.; inscribed, in plate, lower left: Chez Aubert & Cie. Pl. de la Bourse 29. [the ie of Cie are a superscript]; inscribed, in plate, lower right: Imp. d'Aubert & Compie [the ie of Compie are a superscript, period directly below the i]; inscribed, in plate, lower center: DANSE CHINOISE. / On se trompe grandement quand on croit le peuple Chinois léger, joyeaux et ami du plaisir : il est au contraire / grave et morose, car son plus grand divertissement consiste dans une sorte de promenade lugubre où les hommes / et les femmes marchent l'un devant l'autre, ou l'un à côté de l'autre, et semblent se dire : frère il faut mourir! [frère il faut mourir! is bolded] / Aussi pour marque l'inter philosophique de cette cérémonie l'antipode de la danse, l'appellent-ils: Contre-danse. [Contre-danse is bolded]; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: 1197; lower right, collector's mark: G/L; on reverse, in graphite, lower left: 090

Provenance

Collected by Barbara Jaffe Stahl (1930-2004) and David Gerald Stahl (1926-2013), Manchester, New Hampshire; bequeathed to their children Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl and John S. Stahl, 2013; given to present collection, 2014.

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