L'Inconnu

L'Inconnu

Félix Bracquemond, Cadart & Luquet

The Unknown (L'Inconnu)

Félix Bracquemond

Vanneaux et Sarcelles

Félix Bracquemond

Here, the civet offers a hit of snuff to an old beaver, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Andrew Best Leloir, Honoré de Balzac

As the last grains of powder fall into the palm of his blackened hand, a superb hare..., from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

J. J. Grandville, Paul-Emile-Daurand Forgues, Henri Fournier

The oldest rabbit jumped respectfully on his grandfather's lap..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Louis-Henri Brevière, Honoré de Balzac

And a very obstinate vole..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Louis-Henri Brevière, Honoré de Balzac

A Deer and a Lynx

Antoine-Louis Barye, Delaunois

The Vine, or Plumpy Bacchus

Samuel Palmer, William Shakespeare

Butcher Birds, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, Samuel Robinson, Rosenthal

A Stream in the Mondois Valley

Charles-François Daubigny, Imprimerie Sarazin

Old, broken, haggard, whimsical, yet good, yet dedicated, and domestic by temperament, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Charles Tamisier, Honoré de Balzac