Antique Poesy, Jules-Joseph Lefebvre




Antique Poesy, Jules Lefebvre



whose biography has already been given, presents in "Antique Poetry" a young girl who in a poetic competition has won the coveted wreath of honor. In the simple or antique times it was a wreath of fresh laurel. Later it became a wreath of silver in imitation of laurel. It is such a wreath that the figure in the picture

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