The Favorite

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Artist

Name:
Johannot, Alfred
Dates:
1800-1837
Country:
France

Illustration

Subject:
Narratives
Technique:
Lithograph
Lithographer:
Delaunois, Nicolas Louis
Format:
Landscape (wider)
Source:
Robarts Library, The Internet Archive

Periodical

Title:
L'Artiste (volume of plates-1845)
Author:
Collective work
Publisher:
Paris: Bureaux de L'Artiste, n.d. [ca. 1845]

Description:

A man in uniform plays blind man’s buff at a reception and starts groping around as one woman moves away and another, holding a note in her hand, stays close by.

The caption reads Le favori in the original French and is the title of a play by Jacques-Arsène-François-Polycarpe Ancelot, which premiered on October 6, 1831.

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