Wetness and foxing, circa 1850/60. Published by the Imprimerie Lemercier in Paris, this series of plates was intended to serve as models for novice designers, which explains why they can be found in various versions in pencil, charcoal or feather in many flea markets. Here, this young black man with the haughty attitude was perhaps a sailor.
Well, that's it, a page is turned: after 11 years of occupation, we are leaving our official apartment in Biarritz. But Nature and I have a horror of emptiness, I let you imagine everything there was inside and the house where we are grouping the move may be large, I will have to separate little by little of a certain number of objects, furniture and paintings…
So, it is the case to say it, they are of an excellent origin !
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