Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
La Mort dans le poirier
Legros, Alphonse, 1837-1911 · [ca. 1854–1911]
Another episode in the legend of "Bonhomme Misère." Death, up in the pear tree, has just gathered the fruit that Bonhomme Misère pointed out to him; signed in the lower right corner "A. Legros."
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