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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(s):
- 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 a 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.
Keywords: 1840s, 19th century, black & white, festive, game, L'Artiste, periodical
