Edmond loses an arm (The Perverted Peasant, Esprit 1782, fig71) - Binet

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Edmond loses an arm (The Perverted Peasant, Esprit 1782, fig71) - Binet

Edmond loses an arm (The Perverted Peasant, Esprit 1782, fig71) - Binet

Image series :
Rétif de la Bretonne, Le Paysan perverti, Paris, Esprit, 1782

Notice précédente Notice n°74 sur 85 Notice suivante

Artist :
Le Roy, Jacques (1739-?)
Binet, Louis (1744-1800)
Date :
1782
Type of image :
Gravure sur cuivre
Topic :
18th century fiction
Storage Location :
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Réserve
Rés Smith-Lesouef 1490

Description

71st figure.
Subject. Edmond, unable to bear the thought of being with his friends after his infamy, flees as soon as he is pardoned. Arriving in Provence, he enters the home of a peasant who gives him food, and falls asleep in the garden, where a snake bites him on the arm. We see Edmond with his left hand swollen, a stick in his other hand, chasing the snake: a little boy brings his father and mother to help the stranger.

Edmond, returning from the galleys, is bitten on the hand by a snake.

History :
  1. Signed lower left ‘Binet Inv[enit]’, lower right ‘J.a Le Roy Scul’.
  2. Volume IV. Letter CCXVIII. Plate opposite p. 47.
Indexed items :
Serpent
Textual Sources :
Rétif de la Bretonne, Le Paysan perverti (1782)
éd. François Jost, L’Age d’homme, 1977, t. 2, p. 299

Technical Data

Notice #000707

Image HD

Past ID :
A0026
Image editing :
Image web
Image Origin :
Bibliothèque numérique Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France (https://gallica.bnf.fr)
Copyright / Photographer :
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

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