In the artistically vibrant halls of 19th century France, it was hard to find anyone with as fine a stroke as Émile-Antoine Bayard. Born in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Seine-et-Marne, in 1837, Bayard discovered the hidden secrets of art under the skillful guidance of his mentor Léon Cogniet. His remarkable talent allowed him to publish his first cartoons at only 15 years old, often under the creative pseudonym Abel De Miray. He artfully explored media such as charcoal drawings, paintings, watercolors, woodcuts and engravings. However, it was the exquisite "art print" technique of lithography that allowed his works to shine with a splendor never before seen.
The late 19th century was an era of change. The emerging photography pushed documentary drawing into the background. But Bayard, steadfast in his artistic vision, turned to new horizons. He illustrated literary masterpieces from Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables" to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Jules Verne's visionary "From the Earth to the Moon." His portrait of the incomparable Cosette from "Les Misérables" later became iconic, adapted for the logo of Cameron Mackintosh's world-famous musical. This art print is a coveted rarity today and a living testament to his immense talent.
But it was not only literary illustrations that enchanted Bayard. Before man set foot on the moon, the infinite expanses of space already captivated him. While artists before him mystically transfigured space travel and alien worlds, Bayard sought the truth. His groundbreaking illustrations for Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" are among the first scientifically based depictions of outer space. They ushered in a new era of space art in which science and art merged harmoniously.
When Émile-Antoine Bayard breathed his last in Cairo in 1891, he left behind not only an impressive artistic legacy, but also the indelible memory of an artist whose visions lived long after his death. A master whose works are still reproduced today in art prints of the highest quality to inspire generations of art lovers.
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_of_Jules_Vernes_book_Around_the_Moon_(Hetzel_editio_-_(MeisterDrucke-1065042).jpg "Engraving by Emile Bayard of Jules Verne")
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_burne_-_(MeisterDrucke-925789).jpg "Crusade against the Albigeois - The last defenders of Montsegur (Cathare) burned on the butcher in 1244 - Engraving by Emile Bayard after G. Burgun by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Cosette. Illustration from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Sultan Hassan I of Morocco by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Arminio Vambery received in audience by the Khan of Khiva, Uzbekistan, Central Asia, during his travels there in 1863, illustration from")
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.jpg "Dr. Bartolo, from the opera")
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.jpg "Surfing, the practice of Hawaiian favorite game, here by women, in balance, standing or sitting, on the board, on the crest of the waves, who bring them back to the beach (engraving after Emile Bayard")
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.jpg "Paul Marcoy and His Expedition Being Carried Across a Swamp in Argentina by Chuncho Indians in 1874, illustration from")
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.jpg "Large canoe of the Arouhouimi on the Livingstone River (Drawing by Emile Bayard) by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "The Precursors of Raphael and Michelangelo, or the Birth of the Arts of Drawing and Sculpture at the Time of the Renaissance by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Jean Valjean, Marius wounded on his back, fleeing in the water of Paris (Illustration of the novel “Les Miserables” by Victor Hugo) by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Murder of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Illustration of Jules Verne")
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_and_David_Livingstone_(1813_-_(MeisterDrucke-1066461).jpg "Meeting between Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) and David Livingstone (1813-1873), in “Le Tour du Monde” by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Cosette, Illustration from")
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.jpg "Marius and Eponine, Illustration of the Novel")
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.jpg "Stanley")
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.jpg "The Leproux Quest in Chio by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Patients bitten by rabid dogs being inoculated against rabies at the laboratory of the Ecole Normale, Paris by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "The collection of putty during the summer season (Drawing by Emile Bayard) by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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_by_Edouard_Fournier_drawing_by_Emile_B_-_(MeisterDrucke-1066478).jpg "Complete work by Beaumarchais (1732-1799) by Edouard Fournier. drawing by Emile Bayard. Ed. Laplace, Sanchez et Cie, Paris 1876. This is Rosine in “The Barber of Seville” by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "The Count Almavira in")
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.jpg "Bartholo, illustration from Act II Scene 11 of")
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.jpg "Victor Hugo")
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_of_Jules_Vernes_book_Around_the_Moon_(Hetzel_editio_-_(MeisterDrucke-1062928).jpg "Engraving (by Emile Bayard) of Jules Verne")
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.jpg "Henry Morton Stanley watching the Vouagogos tribe preparing for battle during his expedition in 1871, illustration from")
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.jpg "Victor Hugo, Les Chatiments, illustration by Emile Bayard.")
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.jpg "Illustration of Emile Bayard for Hector Malot")
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.jpg "A Funeral Meal at the Time of the Bear and the Mammoth, Illustration from")
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.jpg "Cosette, illustration from")
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_by_Edouard_Fournier_drawing_by_Emile_B_-_(MeisterDrucke-1062709).jpg "Complete work by Beaumarchais (1732-1799) by Edouard Fournier. drawing by Emile Bayard. Ed. Laplace, Sanchez et Cie, Paris 1876. This is Melac Father in The Two Friends by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Dr. David Livingstone in the first boat, flying the English flag, and Henry Morton Stanley in the second boat, flying the American flag, during their expedition in Africa in 1872, illustration from")
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_(former_capital_of_the_Ivory_Coast)_s_-_(MeisterDrucke-1054853).jpg "Young girls of Grand-Bassam (former capital of the Ivory Coast), styling herself (engraving after Emile Bayard")
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.jpg "Fruitier, a merchant itinerant of fresh fruit, with his transport hood and portable scale on his back, in Roustchouk (Romania), engraving after the drawing by Emile Bayard, illustrating the journey to Bulgaria, by Guillaume Lejean, in 1867 by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Monsieur Madeleine comes to the rescue of Fantine at the time of his arrest by Javert - Illustration by Emile Bayard for Les Miserables - First part: Fantine by Victor Hugo 1862 by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "The Count of Almaviva, Character from The Barber of Seville by Beaumarchais (1732-1799) Created in 1773. Illustration by Emile Bayard by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Livingstone surprised by an elephant, in \"Le Tour du Monde\" by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1004187).jpg "The court orchestra, in the Karague (west of Lake Victoria, present-day Zimbabwe), drawing by Emile Bayard, illustrating Captain Speke")
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.jpg "Rosine in")
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.jpg "Inside the Home of Jose d")
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_by_Edouard_Fournier_drawing_by_Emile_B_-_(MeisterDrucke-1064984).jpg "Suzanne in")
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.jpg "Two old Eskimo women, wearing the costume of Greenland women, engraved after Emile Bayard")
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.jpg "Hawaiian Games, at the precipice of Mokapuu, on the island of Oahu, the inhabitants distracted themselves by practicing their favorite game: surfing, engraving after Emile Bayard")
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.jpg "A native of Ougogo, Central Africa, in war dress by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "The Reconciliation by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "A Workshop of a Moulder in the Bronze Age by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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_engraving_after_t_-_(MeisterDrucke-1065044).jpg "Types of pioneers, oxherds and Indians of Benton (Montana), engraving after the drawing by Emile Bayard, illustrating the voyage from Washington to San Francisco, in 1868, by L. Simonin, published in “Le tour du monde” 1874, edited by Edouard Charton by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Fiances and peasants of the Romanian frontiers, engraving after the drawing by Emile Bayard, illustrating the journey to Bulgaria, by Guillaume Lejean, in 1867, published in")
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.jpg "Illustration for Hector Malot")
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.jpg "The Way of Heaven, drawing by E.Bayard, based on a painting from a pagoda to Tien Tsin, illustrating the journey from Shanghai to Moscow, from 1859 to 1862, by M.de Bourboulon, Minister of France in China. Engraving in Le tour du monde, edited by Edouard C by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Adulterers Being Stoned and Hung in Turkey, illustration from")
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.jpg "A leopard leaps on a man and bites him cruelly on his back, in the vicinity of Bambare (Congo), engraving after a drawing by Emile Bayard, illustrating David Livingstone")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-227471).jpg "The Party at Thérèse")
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.jpg "The Third Republic and its presidents from 1871 to 1913 - the Commune of 1871 - Monsignor Darbois, Archbishop of Paris, was executed, shot with other hostages on 28 May 1871 - sitting of 16 June 1871 in the House of Deputies:")
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.jpg "Suzanne in Le mariage de Figaro - in Oeuvres complètes de Beaumarchais, drawings by Emile Bayard, ed. Laplace Sanchez & cie, Paris by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Epitre IV, Au Rois by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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_by_Edouard_Fournier_drawing_by_Emile_B_-_(MeisterDrucke-1064985).jpg "Figaro in")
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.jpg "The sail wheelbarrow, locomotion system used in northern China, drawing by E. Bayard, illustrating the journey from Shanghai to Moscow by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "The First Regular Fights Between Men in the Stone Age, or the Entrenched Camp of Furfooz by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Reassembly of Empty Wagons During the Excavations of 1864 at Pompei by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Pending the audience of the sultan, a group of people in the streets of Fes (Engraving by Emile Bayard) by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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_by_Edouard_Fournier_drawing_by_Emile_B_-_(MeisterDrucke-1066476).jpg "Complete work by Beaumarchais (1732-1799) by Edouard Fournier. drawing by Emile Bayard. Ed. Laplace, Sanchez et Cie, Paris 1876. This is Mother Chaplu in “The Deputies of the Hall” by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Engraving illustrating a late 19th century edition of the novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre: Paul and Virginie. Birds come to land without fear near the young couple of lovers in the forest by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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_by_Edouard_Fournier_drawing_by_Emile_B_-_(MeisterDrucke-1062711).jpg "Complete work by Beaumarchais (1732-1799) by Edouard Fournier. drawing by Emile Bayard. Ed. Laplace, Sanchez et Cie, Paris 1876. This is Colette in Colin and Colette by Emile Antoine Bayard")
_by_Edouard_Fournier_drawing_by_Emile_B_-_(MeisterDrucke-1062711).jpg)
_by_Edouard_Fournier_drawing_by_Emile_-_(MeisterDrucke-1062710).jpg "Complete work by Beaumarchais (1732-1799) by Edouard Fournier. drawing by Emile Bayard. Ed. Laplace, Sanchez et Cie, Paris 1876. This is Jean Beast in Jean Beast at the Fair by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Rosine in")
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.jpg "Epistle XI, To My Gardener, 1695 by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Sir Henry Morton Stanley, illustration from")
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.jpg "Mother Carey")
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.jpg "Les blanchisseuses au Chorillo, Panama, engraving after a drawing by E.Bayard, to illustrate the story Exploration at the isthmus of Panama and Darien, by A. Reclus, lieutenant of ship, from 1876 to 1878, published in the tour du monde, under the direction by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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_by_Edouard_Fournier_drawing_by_Emile_B_-_(MeisterDrucke-1004256).jpg "Complete Work by Beaumarchais by Edouard Fournier. Drawing by Emile Bayard. Ed. Laplace, Sanchez et Cie, Paris 1876. This is Brid")
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.jpg "Portrait of Ziba Khanoum, Persian princess. Engraving by E.Bayard, after a photograph, to illustrate the story Persia, Chaldee and Susiane in 1881-1882, by Jane Dieulafoy by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Northern Afghan rebels fighting the British in the mountains of Hazara, Pakistan, during British rule, 1878 by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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_by_Edouard_Fournier_drawing_by_Emile_B_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059218).jpg "Begearss in The Guilty Mother by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Victor Hugo The Miserables, The Last Gorgee of the Chalice. Illustration by Emile Bayard. The former convict Jean Valjean became old with Cosette and Marius. Engraving of the edition Ollendorff 1906 by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "A well in the desert between Samarkand and Karshi, Uzbekistan, illustration from")
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.jpg "Lunch at the Minister of War, Headdress of a Turban, Facing the Author of the Story, Arriving by the Court, a Row of Servants Carrying the Dishes of the Meal, Engraving by Emile Bayard, to Illustrate the Story of Morocco by Edmondo de Amicis, in 1875, Publ by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "A Caravanserai in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Illustration from")
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.jpg "Frontispiece by Emile Bayard for the Hetzel 1880 edition of Hector Malot")
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.jpg "The amazement of the Eskimos discovering the music boxes in the vicinity of Friedrichsthal (Greenland), engraved after the drawing by Emile Bayard, illustrating the voyage of the ships La Germania and La Hansa to the North Pole in 1869-1870, by Captain He by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Poetic Art in Artworks by Nicolas Boileau. Illustration E. Bayard. Paris 1873 by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Stanley overcomes the rapids on the Congo River by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-153074).jpg "Jeunesse, Les Chansons des Rues et des Bois by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Illustration by Emile Bayard for the novel by Hector Malot “Without Family”: Remi leaves with Monsieur Vitalis, travelling artist and his learned animals the three dogs Capi, Zerbino and Dolce - Edition Hetzel 1880 by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "The Englishman Wants to Buy Turkeys, but Julien Doesn")
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_drawing_by_-_(MeisterDrucke-1004186).jpg "Women pounding sorghum, in the Ounyamouezi (Great Lakes region, Africa), drawing by Emile Bayard, illustrating Captain Speke")
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_Paris_He_-_(MeisterDrucke-50085).jpg "Illustration from")
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_and_Franck_Pock_his_exploration_companion_d_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059260).jpg "Sir Henri Morton Stanley (1841-1904) and Franck Pock, his exploration companion, decide a pile or face of the itinerary of their journey, drawing by Emile Bayard, to illustrate the story Through the Mysterious Continent (Equatorial Africa), a voyage by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "Miss Tinne with her House Staff, Algiers by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "A Mongolian emigrant camel, carrying provisions, various utensils, carpets, blankets and wood of the tent frame, as well as young children in hanging baskets. Drawing by Emile Bayard, to illustrate the journey of Shanghai to Moscow, from 1859 to 1862, publ by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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.jpg "View of the Swiss Alps. Illustration for the book Les Montagnes d")
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_capital_of_Russian_-_(MeisterDrucke-1066823).jpg "A caravanserai in the village of Old Tashkent (or Tashkend), capital of Russian Turkestan, engraved after a drawing by Emile Bayard, to illustrate Basile Vereschagin")
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.jpg "Figaro in")
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.jpg "The meal of the soldiers of the guard of the King of Uganda, M")
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.jpg "First Fights of the Stone Age, illustration from")
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_I_-_(MeisterDrucke-1007385).jpg "View of the Alps: old chalet at the foot of a cliff with cows grazing. Illustration for the book")
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.jpg "Suzanne in")
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.jpg "Argentinian gauchos rounding up wild horses, illustration from")
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.jpg "Representation of Cosette, sweeping barefoot. Illustration for The Miserables by Victor Hugo by Emile Bayard, 19th century. Paris, Maison Victor Hugo by Emile Antoine Bayard")
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