Le Petit, Alfred (painter, lithographer, journalist, and chansonnier; Aumale 1841 – Levallois-Perret 1909). M. (Pierre) Joigneaux. The agronomist as lettuce – “Laitues” – with insignias of a meal, i. a. vinegar + oil, a bevy in salad skirts dropping a curtsey to everything. Colored lithograph. Inscribed: Alfred Le Petit 18 mars 1871, otherwise as above and below resp. 25.2 x 13.6 cm.
Osterwalder, Dictionnaire des Illustrateurs, p. 622. – Plate 31 of Le Petit’s Fleurs, Fruits & Légumes du Jour and at the same time final plate of the first series. – With the address of L’Éclipse and that of the printer Coulbœuf, both Paris. – With H. Briollet’s quatrain:
« Le Siècle veut que l’on joigne aux / Salades qu’on vend à la Halle, / La salade obsidionale / De l’agronome P. Joigneaux. »
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