The Children Found by Fidelio
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The children found by Fidelio.
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A girl and a boy welcome a dog amidst a landscape of lush tropical vegetation. For this illustration, as with all others they collaborated on, Johannot created the figures while Français, who was affiliated with the Barbizon movement, drew the background of tropical vegetation. According to Léon Curmer, the publisher, he, together with Français and Messonier, used to walk around the Jardin des Plantes to look for plants native to Mauritius Island and India which could be used as references to illustrate the book.
The caption reads in the original French: Les enfants et Fidèle.
When available, the captions in English were taken from the edition of Paul and Virginia published by W. S. Orr And Co., London, 1839.
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