This is probably by Claude Joseph Pomel, an engraver born in the Department of Doubs, in Franche-Comte in 1780-81 and who died in 1836 or 1839. He was a pupil of Laurent Guyot, the engraver and publisher of coloured prints. Most of his known prints, with are signed "Pomel", were made before 1825. His is also most likely to be the Pomel who is recorded as a "Fabricant de Feuilles d'eventail", at 45 rue du Temple from 1826 to 1838, after which Edmond Fruit describes his firm as "ancienne maison Pomel": or possibly the Pomel jeune who was at 7 rue du Temple from 1826 to 1830 advertising, in addition to fan leaves "assort[iment] de sujets graves pour cartonnage, ecrans et tabatieres". It is to be presumed that the two Pomels merged their business in 1830 for from 1831 the main firm advertises "et pour cartonnage fins". The son is likely to be the M. Leger Pomel who, according to Rondot, first "appliqua la lithochromie a la feuille d'eventail