EditorialThis is What a Bourgeois Considers a Small Distraction, plate 14 from Les Bons Bourgeois. Honor? Victorin Daumier; French, 1808-1879. Date: 1846. Dimensions: 257 ? 217 mm (image); 338 ? 259 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Origin: F...
EditorialThe room of Lotte Kestner, nee Buff, in Wetzlar. One of the many young women in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's life, but the only one directly translated into world literature as the charming Lotte who drove Werther to distraction and suicide.