Polichinelle was a comic figure of the French stage or puppet theatre and recognisable by his cattle-coloured costume, the stitch on his head, his hook-nosed nose and the hump on his back and an enormous belly. For the edition Théodore de Banville wrote a two-line verse which is printed underneath the print., The actor as comic figure Polichinelle Polichinelle, print maker: Edouard Manet, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Edouard Manet, printer: Lemercier & Cie., (mentioned on object), Paris, 1874 - 1876, paper, h 315 mm × w 430 mm

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