Le Petit, Alfred (painter, lithographer, journalist, and chansonnier; Aumale 1841 – Levallois-Perret 1909). M. Vor. Hugo. embedded into wild rose, “L’Églantine”, from whose thicket “Les ch(â)timents” strike the monarch crawling after his crown like lightning. At the same time a Ghoul reaches out for monarch and crown, too. Hugo’s head, however, up from the eyes a ball of lights. Colored lithograph. Inscribed: Alfred Le Petit 22 Mars 1871., otherwise as above and below resp. 25 x 13.5 cm.
Osterwalder, Dictionnaire des Illustrateurs, p. 622. – Plate 30 of Le Petit’s Fleurs, Fruits & Légumes du Jour. – With the address of L’Éclipse and that of the printer Coulbœuf, both Paris. – Feeble color stains in the white right margin. – With H. Briollet’s quatrain:
« Ce vieil et robuste églantier / Toujours fleuri de nobles roses, / N’eut des épines sans quartier / Que pour les méprisables choses. »
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