Between 1930 and 1931, Lucien Simon was asked to illustrate the reprint of Pierre Loti’s novel Pêcheur d’Islande, published in 1886. He produced a set of fifty gouache watercolours, from which Pierre Bouchet woodcuts the illustrations to be printed in the final edition, of which 150 copies were printed and published in 1934. The novel tells the love story of Yann, a Breton sailor regularly sent to Iceland, and Marguerite, known as Gaud, a young Breton woman from a wealthy family. Our leaf is one of fifty drawings used to illustrate Pêcheur d’Islande. It illustrates Gaud and Yann’s wedding feast, described in chapter 7 of the book.