Caption
Les Cosaques en Bonne Fortune, Cossacks on the path of love, cartoon, print, Cossacks meeting French women., printmaker: Adrien Godefroy, France, publisher: Aaron Martinet, Paris, c. 1814 - c. 1815, paint (coating), paper, watercolor (paint), etching, engraving, hand coloring, etching and engraving, hand-colored, height 215 mm x width 292 mm, soldiers and civilians, Cossacks, A colored engraving shows two pairs of figures facing each other on a pale background with horizontal lines suggesting a floor; on the left a tall man with a dark shaggy hat and a long dark coat leans forward, one hand under the chin of a shorter woman wearing a white head covering, a brown bodice, and a skirt with vertical purple and red panels while she holds a small basket at her side; on the right a tall man in a dark uniform with a high hat and a sash looks down at a shorter woman who gazes up at him, she wears a pink headscarf, a white bodice, and a skirt with red and white panels and stands on tiptoe with her arms around his waist as a long sword with a decorative hilt rests near his leg; between the two pairs in the middle distance two smaller figures appear, one in flowing garments with a scarf and the other in a uniform with a tall plume and a drawn sword.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26B24_375
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