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[Le Peintre Barbouillard et le Tableau diabolique]
Mr. Dauber and the Whimsical Picture
Mr. Dauber, a painter very favorably known, receives a visit from Mr. Pierrot, a white clown enjoying a popularity as wide spread as that of the painter himself, who comes to request a sitting for his portrait. The painter sets out promptly to execute his order, and in a few minutes he sketches upon a blackboard the portrait of his new patron. Hardly has he finished when the painting, nothing but that of a jumping-jack, begins to move its arms and legs and afterwards springs out of the frame. There follows between the three an irresistibly comic scene during which a number of amusing incidents take place, producing bursts of laughter from the audience. This view is one of the most comical which have been given to the public for a long time.
MEL 1905-A