But it's just a bunch of words....

It was taz who was asking about this. I was curious to know the answer too: thanks, loiseau!

Wowzer! Thank you so much, loiseau! I had given up. How on earth did you figure it out?

I finally dug out one credited image on the net, at a reproduction site, here, after seeing this update. Awesome.

Thanks misteraitch, for adding a note to the original thread, because I got an email notification on that, and found this. You're a sweetie.

And thanks again, Chief Detective Louiseau - you're a genius.

Now that I know his name, I've looked up a few others by him. I love "A Woman from the Land of Eskimos":

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Gazing at this, I became sort of swept up in vivid imaginings of the life, dress, manners, expectations, limitations, restrictions, etc. of the average European female during his era, and how passionately I would prefer to be a woman from the land of Eskimos (as typified by this painting, at least) if I had lived at that time. I wonder if he meditated on that at all, since this seems to have such a wonderful freedom inherent in it... or if it was just an aesthetic exercise?

Oh, sorry to both Essexjan and Taz -- I'm not sure why I wrote that, since I had even opened the original thread to see if the answer had been posted.

But hooray! I win!

I actually just went to any ol' bookstore here and looked. It seems the Folio series is quite common, and they put the info we sought quite plainly on the back cover. I usually expect that info inside on the copyright page for some reason.

It's pretty amazing how many relatively unsung painters there were back in those days. Do you suppose there are a zillion people in this time who would be amazing painters but just haven't tried it?

Even though it was taz's question, I wondered who the artist was too, although the subject wasn't quite my type. So thanks, loiseau.