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[Title page of Les Aphorismes de Brillat Savarin, showing man and woman facing each other, as the man cuts a piece of meat] – Vintage Print

[Title page of Les Aphorismes de Brillat Savarin, showing man and woman facing each other, as the man cuts a piece of meat], 1905 — antique engraving
[Title page of Les Aphorismes de Brillat Savarin, showing man and woman facing each other, as the man cuts a piece of meat], 1905. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A man carving a joint of meat while a woman sits opposite him anchors this 1905 title page, which Albert Robida engraved for an edition of Brillat-Savarin's aphorisms. Robida, a French illustrator known for his satirical and imaginative drawings, turns the book's theme of appetite and conversation into a domestic scene. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a lawyer and gastronome, published *The Physiology of Taste* in 1825, and his witty maxims on food and society remained popular long after his death in 1826. The engraving's staging of the meal as a social ritual suits that tradition.

Created / published1905
Medium1 print : engraving.
NotesEngraving by Albert Robida. Illus. in: Les Aphoismes de Brillat Savarin, title page. Ref. copy may be in Leondard Beck, Two Loaf-Givers"
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,002 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158991

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