An Exaggerated Rejuvenation. “Just two or three sessions with me, Monsieur, and anyone who still claims to find a grey hair on you, is a malicious person.” As a matter of fact, since the end of the second session, Monsieur's head looks as shiny as that of a newborn baby, plate 52 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie

published March 27, 1845

Dating: Exact year
Held at: Art Institute of Chicago
Medium: Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on cream wove paper (sheet folded to form four pages), with text added in another hand and letterpress verso (and recto when unfolded)
Dimensions: Image: 20.5 × 21.1 cm (8 1/8 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet, folded: 36.3 × 25.5 cm (14 5/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
Collection no.: 1942.163
Attribution: By the artist

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