An Inventory of Every Article

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The dealers entered her sanctuary and took an inventory of every article.

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Artist

Name:
Cortazzo, Oreste
Dates:
1836-1912
Country:
Italy

Illustration

Subject:
Narratives
Technique:
Etching
Engraver:
Faivre, Claude
Format:
Portrait (taller)
Source:
University of Toronto Library, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:
La maison du chat qui pelote
Author:
Balzac, Honoré de
Publisher:
Paris: Société d'éditions littéraires et artistiques, 1901
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Description:

A woman stands smiling in the middle of what still is a richly decorated room while a furniture dealer leaning on a small bookcase looks at her pensively, his pencil to his mouth, and movers take tapestries and paintings off the walls.

The caption reads in the original French: Les marchands entrèrent dans ce sanctuaire et y inventorièrent tout.

Caption based on Katharine Prescott Wormeley’s translation from A Daughter of Eve. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895.

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