3-089-242 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Une imitation bourgeois du Zéphir de Prudhon, 1847. A middle class imitation of Prudhon's 'Zéphir', a work of art which depicts Zephyr, the God of wind, as a naked boy holding onto a branch and dipping his toe in the water. Monsieur Prudhomme was a character invented by Henri Monnier to symbolise bourgeois complacency and self-satisfaction. Series: Les Bons Bourgeois.