Le Dressage, Rustic Sports — Préjelan

A breezy comic plate from a series of country-pursuit satires, in which a fashionable woman attempts the dressage of a stubborn donkey.

Original French title: Le Dressage, from the series Sports Rustiques. Drawn by René Préjelan. Published in La Vie Parisienne, Paris, c. 1915.

René Préjelan was a sought-after illustrator of the French weeklies, his line at home with both leisure-class portraits and animal comedy. Sports Rustiques belonged to a sub-genre of country-life parodies in which the urban Parisienne, dressed for town, finds herself comically outmatched by the local livestock.

Chromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 38.5 × 28.8 cm. Very Good.