An Inventory of Every Article

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A woman stands smiling in a richly decorated room while her furniture is being taken away by movers

The dealers entered her sanctuary and took an inventory of every article.

(Facing p. 270.)

Artist

Name:: Cortazzo, Oreste
Dates:: 1836-1912
Country:: Italy

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Technique:: Etching
Engraver:: Faivre, Claude
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: University of Toronto Library, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: La maison du chat qui pelote
Author:: Balzac, Honoré de
Publisher:: Paris: Société d'éditions littéraires et artistiques, 1901
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A woman stands in the middle of a richly decorated room, where movers are beginning to take tapestries and paintings off the walls. She smiles at a furniture dealer who is leaning on a small bookcase, watching her pensively with a pencil to his mouth.

The caption reads in the original French: Les marchands entrèrent dans ce sanctuaire et y inventorièrent tout.

Caption based on Katharine Prescott Wormeley’s translation from A Daughter of Eve. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895.

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