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.
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.