An artist's easel with the figure of a man holding a large paint brush. Etching by L. Truchy after Du Viviez.

An Arcimboldesque. "This engraving shows a resemblance to a human figure in profile, made principally by means of artists' apparatus; the form is supported and its legs are constituted by an easel, at one side of which hangs a palette, supplying the trunk of the figure, and set with patches of pigment according to the practice of artists; the right arm, furnished with a hand, is thrust through the thumb-hole of the palette, the hand grasps a mahl stick; on the sleeve, by way of ruffle, is a sketch of a naked male figure leaning on a club. A human face appears above the edge of the palette, and is covered by way of a hat with a painter's basket, a group of brushes in which suggests a plume, and a second palette. The left arm of the figure supports on the shoulder a large porte-crayon, with black and white chalks in it. On the ruffle of this arm is a sketch of a nude female figure. The background is a landscape, in which is a milestone inscribed, 'IV milles from Hyde Parck'"--British Museum catalogue, loc. cit.