Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

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Edmé Jean Pigal
1798-1872

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ca. 1822
10 3/16 x 7 13/16 inches (259 x 199 mm)
Watercolor and black chalk on paper.
2003.20:4

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Published caption title same as above.
Watercolor drawing by Pigal for a lithograph published as no. 25 of a volume of 50 hand colored lithographic plates printed by Langlumé and issued with the title: Recueil de scènes populaires. Paris : Martinet & Gihaut, 1822.
Inscriptions/Markings
Title inscribed with a brush in watercolor at foot of drawing.
Summary

Drawing shows two men seated at a table drinking and conversing, with the man on the right, who is grizzled and elderly, addressing the other, a younger and powerfully built man wearing an apron.

Associated names
Pigal, Edmé Jean, 1798-1872. Recueil de scènes populaires. 25.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department