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This engraving is from Voltaire's Candide: it depicts the scene where Candide and Cacambo see two monkeys apparently attacking two nude women. Candide kills the monkeys, then comes to believe the monkeys and women were actually lovers. The image may have been accompanied by the caption, "The two wanderers heard a few little cries".
Source

This version is from: Bellhouse, Mary L. (December 2006). "Candide Shoots the Monkey Lovers: Representing Black Men in Eighteenth-Century French Visual Culture". Political Theory 34. DOI 10.1177/0090591706293020. The original is from the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.
Date

1803
Author

The drawing is by Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune; the etching of said drawing by Emmanuel de Ghendt.
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