All Resolutions
Walks stealthily up to her bed.
Artist
- Name:
- Meissonier, Ernest
- Dates:
- 1815-1891
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Lavieille, Jacques Adrien
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
Book
- Title:
- Les contes rémois
- Author(s):
- Chevigné, Louis de
- Publisher:
- Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1861
Description
A man in eighteenth-century uniform tip-toes to a bed in which a woman lies sleeping.
This illustration features at the beginning of the tale “L’aveu naïf” (The naive confession).
The caption reads in the original French:
Un officier, par l’amour introduit,
À pas de loup s’approche de son lit.
Keywords: 1860s, 19th century, black & white, mixed genders, sleeping, sneaky
