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"The Chameleon declares that he is happy and proud to be, as always, of the same opinion as everyone" from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals

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"The Chameleon declares that he is happy and proud to be, as always, of the same opinion as everyone" from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals

Honoré de Balzac|J. J. Grandville|Joseph Hippolyte Jules Caqué

Date
ca. 1837–47
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 3/8 × 7 3/16 in. (26.3 × 18.2 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
59.500.592(2)
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

French, Tours 1799–1850 Paris|French, Nancy 1803–1847 Vanves|French, 1820?–?1885

The Met object ID 812833. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.