A series of mine from 2010 depicting characters from Voltaire’s Candide.  From left to right, top to bottom: Candide, Cunegonde, Pangloss, Paquette, the Old Woman, Martin, Cacambo, the Anabaptist, and Pococurante.  (I may have had too much fun with the syphilis and strangulation marks.) —Ellen

A series of mine from 2010 depicting characters from Voltaire’s Candide.  From left to right, top to bottom: Candide, Cunegonde, Pangloss, Paquette, the Old Woman, Martin, Cacambo, the Anabaptist, and Pococurante.  (I may have had too much fun with the syphilis and strangulation marks.)

—Ellen

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