c. 1870s
No, Ladies and Gentlemen! I Have Not Come to This Place to Sell You False and Questionable Drugs! . . .
Gustave FrisonFrench, 1850 - died after 1915
Numerous satirical prints were devoted to the exploits of the unlicensed dentist Georges Fattet, who enjoyed spectacular but short-lived success in mid-nineteenth-century Paris. Believing all publicity to be good publicity, Fattet commissioned many of the paintings, prints, and even caricatures that flaunted his flamboyant habits.
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