A man is selling horns from his basket, as emblems of cuckoldry: husbands reply that they will not buy any because they already have plenty. Engraving by Frs. Hubert after Le Nain (?).

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[1850]
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A man is selling horns from his basket, as emblems of cuckoldry: husbands reply that they will not buy any because they already have plenty. Engraving by Frs. Hubert after Le Nain (?). Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Paris (Rue St. Jean de Beauvais, No. 10) : chez Jean, [1850]

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1 print : engraving ; image 40.5 x 28 cm

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Le marchand de corne. Le marchand aux maris. ... Réponse des maris au marchand. Le Nain pinxt. Gravé par Frs. Hubert. Verses below the image: "Le marchand aux maris. Approchez donc! venez choisir, / Messieurs, dans la boutique entière / Et du moins j'aurai le plaisir De porter l'eau dans la rivière. Réponse des maris au marchand. Tel objet ne peut nous tenter, / Bonhomme, c'est trop tard t'y prendre / Hélas! bien loin d'en acheter, / Nous en avons tous à revendre."

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Jean Adhémar, Jacques Lethève, and Françoise Gardey, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome X, Paris 1958, p. 508, no. 5 ("Le marchand de corne, d'apr. une peinture de Lenain, chez Aurais 1806. — Retirage chez Jean, 1850.")

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