“Le bottier” (bootmaker), a print from Frédéric Bouchot’s 12-part series “Debtors and Creditors”, 1844.
Featured on PDR in the essay The Art of Making Debts: Accounting for an Obsession in 19th-Century France
Being in debt was once an artful *promenade* — the process of eluding creditors through disguise and deceit. Erika Vause explores a forgotten financial history: the pervasive humor that once accompanied the literature and visual culture of debt.
Also appearing in the essay…
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The Bootmaker
Artist
Date
1844
From
Debtors and Creditors
