"Rien n'est si joli que la fa a a a ble e e, si triste que la vérité!"

Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866 · October 21, 1842

A thin, flat-faced woman seen from behind and turned to the right, in a shirt and corset, plays the guitar. Her petticoat hangs from the key of an ice cupboard on the left. On the wall his half-legged portrait, in a toilet that gives relief to his throat and hips.