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Les bals masqués [print].

Accession number
PML 141255.2
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : Chez Bauger, [184-]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title from head of plates.
Plates numbered 1 through 7 at upper right.
At lower left of each plate: Chez Bauger R du Croissant 16; at center: par Gavarni; at right: Imp. d'Aubert & Cie.
Published suite of 7 numbered lithographs; nos. 1-3 and 5-6 by Gavarni, with his reversed signature in the stone; nos. 4 and 7 evidently executed by an unidentified hand after drawings by Gavarni. Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
The 5 plates by Gavarni are later states of lithographs originally published by Rittner et Goupil and Charles Tilt, having appeared individually in the journal Le Charivari from Dec. 1839 to Feb. 1840.
Comprises plates 13 through 19 of a bound volume of published suites of prints by Gavarni.
Description
7 prints : lithographs ; images: 226 x 185 mm, sheets: 334 x 255 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department