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The watercolor drawing features Icart"s caricature of famous French author and chef Prosper Montagne* chasing Icart's young daughter Reine.
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''To Prosper Montagne, caterer to kings. homage from the painter of Reine,'' Louis Icart, 1921
               
The picture above is of the actual etching for sale, with close-ups.

*The Encyclopedia Britannica writes of Prosper Montague:

After Careme, the two men who probably had the greatest impact on French gastronomy and that of the world at large were Prosper Montagné and Georges-Auguste Escoffier. Montagné was one of the great French chefs of all time, and he achieved a secure place in gastronomic history by creating Larousse Gastronomique (1938), the basic encyclopaedia of French gastronomy.