"Homme en Grande Bottes"

Description 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).

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
1/01/2002	Examination	examined for exhibition

Exhibitions

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

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

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

Credit Gift of the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009