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Description This engraving is from Voltaire's Candide: it depicts the scene where Candide and Cacambo see two monkeys apparently attacking two nude women. Candide kills the monkeys, then understands that the monkeys and women were actually lovers. The image may have been accompanied by the caption, "The two wanderers heard a few little cries". The picture is inaccurate because those are apes, not monkeys.
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Source This version is from: Bellhouse, Mary L. (2006-12). "Candide Shoots the Monkey Lovers: Representing Black Men in Eighteenth-Century French Visual Culture". Political Theory 34: 773. Sage Publications. DOI 10.1177/0090591706293020. The original is from the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.
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Jean-Michel Moreau  (1741–1814)  wikidata:Q321972
 
Jean-Michel Moreau
Alternative names
Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune ("the younger")
Description French engraver, drawer and painter
Date of birth/death 26 March 1741 Edit this at Wikidata 30 November 1814 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work period between circa 1758 and circa 1814
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1758-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1814-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Paris, Saint Petersburg (1758-1759)
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creator QS:P170,Q321972

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