"I was deprived of the happiness to pick it up... I saw a hundred times an agile rival offer it smiling to our common goddess." from the Little Miseries of Human Life

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

"I was deprived of the happiness to pick it up... I saw a hundred times an agile rival offer it smiling to our common goddess." from the Little Miseries of Human Life

J. J. Grandville|Auguste Barbant|Paul-Emile-Daurand Forgues|Henri Fournier

Date
1843
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 7 1/2 in. (28.5 × 19 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
65.570.61(35)
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Yvonne Möen Cumerford, 1965

Artist information

French, Nancy 1803–1847 Vanves|French, born Paris 1838|French, Paris 1813–1883 Cannes|

Subjects and terms

  • Men
  • Women

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