Célestin Nanteuil – Etching of his painting 'Charity' from the 1861 Salon

 Célestin Nanteuil, La Charité (Charity). 1861. Etching. From Le Monde Illustré.

This etching reproduces the ex-Bouzingo artist Nanteuil's painting exhibited at the 1861. Though photography was developing by this time, photographs could not yet be easily and cheaply printed for mass audiences or in newspapers and magazines, so most paintings were reproduced and known by most people through etchings; Nanteuil, who was best known as a print-maker, etched this himself.