Rare lithgraph showing a charge against the 19th century french Salon Jury represented as donkeys and evoking the mandarinate of the official painters of the time, such as : Delaroche, Ary Scheffer, Brascassat, Granet....the bottom caption ending by : "Portraits of chinese academicians, of the institute of Pékin, Nankin and all the places." Very good condition, lithograph by E. Vignancour, à Paris.
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