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Roméo DUMOULIN (Tournai, 1883 - Brussels, 1944)
The Witch of Malleghem (sketch)
Pencil on paper
Titled at top La Sorcière de Malleghem / Esquisse, captioned at bottom left Harbouya plus mal n'aura / L'caillou est mort, signed at bottom right Roméo Dumoulin
29.5 x 22.5 cm
Gilded wood frame
Note: Roméo Dumoulin, the great Belgian illustrator of facetious art, has fun here mixing a theme taken from a famous engraving after Peter Brueghel the Elder, the Witch of Malleghem, whose art consists in extracting from men their stone of madness, and the character of Harbouya, an unhappy patient from an old Walloon song.
Ref: CW6VL404Z4