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(Facing p. 270.)
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(s):
- Balzac, Honoré de
- Publisher:
- Paris: Société d'éditions littéraires et artistiques, 1901
- Open Library:
- View record
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.
Keywords: 1900s, 20th century, black & white, smiling
