The Days’ Doings, November 26th, 1870

Volume 1, Number 18. This engraving is after an oil painting by Charles Desire Hue entitled The Laboratory, showing Jean-Jaques Rousseau and Madame de Warens dancing about in a kitchen. The painting has alternatively been titled as Merriment, painted in 1869 and a later version in 1877, of the same scene is called Flirtation inContinue reading “The Days’ Doings, November 26th, 1870”