Caption:
Jean de La Fontaine, 1621-1695, French fabulist, writer and poet, seated at his writing desk, wearing brown jacket and breeches, a quill pen in his right hand. Lafontaine. Handcoloured lithograph by Lorenzo Bianchi and Domenico Cuciniello after Hippolyte Lecomte from Costumi civili e militari della monarchia francese dal 1200 al 1820, Naples, 1825. Italian edition of Lecomtes Civilian and military costumes of the French monarchy from 1200 to 1820.