Gustave Henri Jossot (1866-1951) Bazouge. 1895. Lithograph. Sight: 250 x 362. A. and A. Bonafous-Murat, Maurice Dumont et L'Épreuve, 199. Fine proof on green-tinted vellum, numbered in the compositor lower right. Margins. Edition of 225 proofs for L'Épreuve, Album d'art. Framed. "Jossot chose this title in reference to L'Assommoir, Zola's novel in which one of the characters is the mortician Bazouge." (M. Dixmier and L. Viltard, Jossot Caricatures; de la révolte à la fuite en Orient (1866-1951), Paris bibliothèques, 2010, n° 153 and repr. p. 139).