"Homme en Grande Bottes"

Prosper Mérimée (French, 1803-1870)n.d.

The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States

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).

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Title: "Homme en Grande Bottes"
Creator: Prosper Mérimée (French, 1803-1870)
Date Created: n.d.
External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
Roles: Artist: Prosper Mérimée (French, 1803-1870)
Provenance: Joseph F. McCrindle (1923-2008), New York, #A0677; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, New York, 2008, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
Object Type: drawings; caricatures
Medium: watercolor on cream-colored paper tipped onto white sheet
Inscriptions: Inscribed in pencil on white sheet backing in recent writing: Album Mérimée
Exhibitions: Expanding Horizons: Recent Additions to the Drawings Collection. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2010.
Dimensions: H: 6 x W: 2 1/2 in. (15.24 x 6.35 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009
Classification: Painting & Drawing
Accession Number: 37.279

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