[The painter and the apothecary].
In the form of an historic fable, an anecdote is reported concerning the Parisian apothecary Jean-Baptiste, Louis Costel (1729-1800). He refused to pay his portraitist because he claimed that the painting he had ordered from him resembled him so little.
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Le peintre et l'apothicaire: fable historique.