Joseph-Xavier Boniface PICCIOLA (CHARNEY EXAMINING) Louis-Ernest Barrias Print
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| Management number | 4121041 | Release Date | 2025/08/12 | List Price | $28.50 | Model Number | 4121041 | ||
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Joseph-Xavier Boniface PICCIOLA (CHARNEY EXAMINING) Louis-Ernest Barrias Print
This is an illustration / print that has been taken from a book dated 1902 and is ready for framing. Measures approximately 11 x 8 1/2 inches. There is an image text summary on the attached rice paper.
Picciola is a novel published in 1836 by Joseph-Xavier Boniface.
The book tells the story of Count Charney, a former soldier who lost his trust in man and has been jailed for conspiring against Napoleon. Charney one day discovers a plant growing between two paving stones of his cell. This plant becomes for him a distraction, then an obsession, then a passion and finally it becomes a symbol of life and love. Through the physiological development of the plant he calls Picciola he learns to love and appreciate beauty through this real example of the evolution of nature. The image of a small flower that grows and survives with the care provided by Charney in a place so sinister as a prison, is an image of th
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