LE POITEVIN Eugène (1806†1871) - "Les Diables de lithographies! by LE POITEVIN", 1832, In Paris, at Aumont, rue J.J. Rousseau, 10 and in London, Cyhez Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet Street. Printed by Raeppehn et Cie, Rue du Croissant, n°20". Set of 10 (of 12) original lithographs & illustrated title page (Pl.5 and 11 missing). Proofs on wove paper. Ref : I.F.F. 16. All signed with the monogram of the artist in the plate. "Any other is Eugène Le Poitevin, the marine painter, who popularized a very different genre but whose impact was no less significant. Proceeding in a straight line from the Mephistopheles of Faust and the bizarre tendencies of the Romantic school, this artist's diableries threw a picturesque and amusing note amidst the colorless prints of the conscientious lithographer. For a time they were nothing but devils and devilries, devils often erotic, more or less light devilries. Les Diables, Petits sujets de diables, Bizarreries diaboliques, Encore des Diableries; it was under these titles that the brown-covered albums of Le Poitevin spread everywhere, soon imitated by Bayalos with his Diablotins and Michel Delaporte with his Récréations diabolico-fantasmagoriques. White devils and black devils followed by red devils and green devils. The devil crept everywhere, committing a thousand incongruities, lifting up the women's dresses, undressing them as if by magic, putting them in cages, pulling them by the hair, always having at his service countless little devils running wrongly and through the leaves. There was such an invasion of Satan's subjects that it was no longer, as in the song, "Vive la lithographie", but "au diable, les polissonnes" " (Grand-Carteret, Les Mœurs et la caricature en France, p. 174). Approximately 35.5 x 53 cm. Condition B/C (Title page damaged, short tears in the margins for some, scattered light freckles or only in the margins, margins cut for one and slightly dusty). Set of 10 pl.