Méprise de piron, anonymous engraving after the painting by julie ribault entitled "piron" or "piron at the porte d'auteuil" presented at the salon of 1822 (number 1086 of the booklet) with the following description:
piron, tired from a walk in the bois de boulogne, sits down near the door of the conference; soon he is greeted by all the passers-by. "oh ! oh ! i’m more famous than i thought”! but an old woman appears and throws herself on her knees. Piron invites him to get up; he notices that she is moving her lips; he leans over, listens and hears that it is a hail mary that this good woman is addressing to an image of the virgin, placed above the bench where he was sitting; he also sees that it is to this image that all the greetings he had taken for himself were addressed. “these are the poets,” said piron as he left; “they believe that the whole world contemplates them, when we do not even think that they exist. ”
the engraving is a resumption of the delvaux engraving, published in the ladies' almanac for the year 1823 (treuttel & würtz, 1823) see here. Object Type: print. Date: 1842. Meprise de Piron (after Julie Ribault)
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