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"Homme en Grande Bottes"

Prosper Mérimée (French, 1803-1870) (Artist)
n.d.
watercolor on cream-colored paper tipped onto white sheet
(18th and 19th Centuries )

This caricature may allude to the "Seven-League Boots," which enable the wearer to take enormous strides as in "Le Petit Pouchet (Hop o' My Thumb)," a fairy tale written by Charles Perrault (1628-1703).

Inscription

Inscribed in pencil on white sheet backing in recent writing: Album Mérimée

Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.

Joseph F. McCrindle (1923-2008), New York, #A0677; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, New York, 2008, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.

Exhibitions

2010 Expanding Horizons: Recent Additions to the Drawings Collection. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
1/1/2002 Examination examined for exhibition
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Geographies

France (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 6 x W: 2 1/2 in. (15.24 x 6.35 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.

37.2790

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