Père Fouettard (Bogeyman)

Collection : Musée national des arts et traditions populaires, Paris, France
Photograph : MNATP

Coloured lithograph.
French print works at Metz, Gangel.

Illustration taken from a plate of twelve scenes in three registers, from Metz. The bogeyman rewards good children who "will become rich when they will be older" but takes "to the rat cellar children who don’t want to say their prayers".