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"Good evening then, my friend Lecteur..." from Scenes from the Private and Publique Life of Animals

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"Good evening then, my friend Lecteur..." from Scenes from the Private and Publique Life of Animals

Honoré de Balzac|Louis-Henri Brevière|J. J. Grandville

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(71)
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection. The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

French, Tours 1799–1850 Paris|French, Forges-les-Eaux 1797–1869 Hyers|French, Nancy 1803–1847 Vanves

The Met object ID 813061. 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.