Image size of this print is 21 1/2 X 15 1/2 inches.

FORBIDDEN FRUIT Anonymous.

This is a fine HANDCOLORED ART PRINT. We have all that are left and when they are gone no more will be reproduced. This print list in the publishers catalog for $60 so here is a true bargain

I was emailed this:The information on the back of my copy of this print says it was painted in 1865 by Auguste Toulmouche. It says: "The foibles of woman-kind, her courtships, anxieties, flirtations, society gatherings and domestic wifely home-life, have all in turn occupied this artist's care. Forbidden Fruit, or rather Forbidden Books, was painted sixteen years ago (in 1865) and obtained for its Artist the decoration of the Legion of Honour. A "Covey" of mischievous young ladies have penetrated a portion of the Library, forbidden to young folks, and whilst one of them stands sentinel, with her ear at the key-hole to give warning of any one's approach, the others hurriedly scan passages from Balzac, Bayle, Boccaccio, Rabelais, Byron, Beranger, and other books generally forbidden to young ladies.. Toulmouche was born at Nantes in 1829, and studied under Gleyre; he received a third class medal as early as 1850, and a high class medal at the Exhibition of 1878. Quite a number of his best pictures are in American galleries.