File:La Fontaine - Tales and Novels in verse - v2 p130.jpg

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Illustration of "The Devil of Pope-Fig Island", by Charles Eisen for part of Jean La Fontaine's Nouveaux Contes (1764), showing a woman lifting her skirt to display her genitals to ward off a demon.

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Artist
Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen  (1720–1778)  wikidata:Q2744998
 
Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen
Alternative names
Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen
Description French painter, printmaker, drawer and engraver
son of Frans Eisen
Date of birth/death 17 August 1720 Edit this at Wikidata 4 January 1778 / 4 August 1778 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Valenciennes City of Brussels
Work location
Paris, City of Brussels
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artist QS:P170,Q2744998
Description
English: Illustration by Charles Eisen for The Devil of Pope-Fig Island by Jean de La Fontaine: Tales and Novels in Verse. Vol. 2 London 1896, p. 130
Date 1896
date QS:P571,+1896-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving
Source/Photographer https://archive.org/details/talesnovelsinver02lafoiala

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