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.

Je n'y suis pas

Edmé Jean Pigal
1798-1872

Je n'y suis pas

ca. 1823
11 1/16 x 7 7/8 inches (281 x 200 mm)
Watercolor and black chalk on paper.
2003.20:8

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Watercolor drawing by Pigal for a lithograph published as no. 3 of a volume of 100 hand colored lithographic plates printed by Langlumé and issued with the title: Moeurs Parisiennes. Paris : Gihaut frères, [ca. 1823].
Inscriptions/Markings
Title inscribed in pen and ink at foot of drawing.
Summary

Drawing shows a man seated at his desk with a newspaper, speaking to a clerk who has come to inform him that he has a visitor in the form of a third man, visible at right on the other side of the office door.

Associated names
Pigal, Edmé Jean, 1798-1872. Moeurs Parisiennes. 3.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department