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Artist
- Name:
- Bayard, Émile
- Dates:
- 1837-1891
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- People
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Pannemaker, Adolphe François
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Robarts Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Contes et romans populaires
- Author(s):
- Chatrian, Alexandre, Erckmann, Émile
- Publisher:
- Paris: Hetzel, n.d.
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
A smiling man with grey curly hair sits half-hidden behind the large leather-bound book he’s reading at a table cluttered with various objects, among which more books, pipes, a skull, etc.
The caption reads in the original French: Knapwurst s’était remis à sa lecture.
Keywords: 19th century, black & white, book, portrait, reading, skull
