Rabelais lubricating Half-length portrait of John Smeaton

Half-length portrait of John Smeaton dressed in a grey suit with white shirt and neck-cloth and a short grey wig

1365-1367 (1955)

Plate 9 from Eerste vervolg der proefneemingen

An eel seller

By definition a divorce à vinculo dissolves and totally severs the marriage tie

Rabelais lubricating Half-length portrait of John Smeaton'Rabelais', 1882. Francois Rabelais (c1495 1553) was a French writer, satirist, humanist, doctor and monk. Born at Chinon in Touraine, he is best remembered as the author of the romance La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel (The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel) which appeared in four volumes between 1532 and 1552. A fifth work appeared posthumously in 1554 but is of doubtful authenticity. These four comic novels tell the story of the giants