Une Imitation bourgeois du Zéphir de Prudhon, 1847. A Bourgeois Imitation of Prudhon's 'Zéphir', a work of art which depicts Zephyr, the God of wind, as a naked boy holding onto a branch and dipping his toe in the water. Monsieur Prudhomme was a character invented by Henri Monnier to symbolise bourgeois complacency and self-satisfaction. Series: Les Bons bourgeois, no. 30; Periodical: Le Charivari, 26 April 1847.

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