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8–6. Pierre Philippe Choffard, pages from Contes et nouvelles en vers, by Jean de La Fontaine

To adorn a poem about a painter’s romantic interlude with his subject, Jean Gérard Barbou used Eisen’s etching of the event, a topical tailpiece by Choffard, and Fournier le Jeune’s ornamented type.

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