Accession number
PML 141256.11
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : Chez Bauger, [1840].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title at head of plate: Industrie des enfans; numbered "1" at upper right.
Caption text continues: Entrepreneur, Directeur de Spectacle á domicile, pour Paris et les Départmens, au plus juste prix.
Below image at left: Imp. d'Aubert & Cie; at center: par Gavarni; at right: Chez Bauger R du Croissant 16.
Signed with the artist's signature in reverse within the stone.
Plate evidently intended as the first of a projected suite of prints to appear under the title "Industrie des enfans", although the set was ultimately never continued by Gavarni; this print originally published in La Caricature, Apr. 26, 1840. Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Comprises plate 121 of a bound volume of prints by Gavarni.
Caption text continues: Entrepreneur, Directeur de Spectacle á domicile, pour Paris et les Départmens, au plus juste prix.
Below image at left: Imp. d'Aubert & Cie; at center: par Gavarni; at right: Chez Bauger R du Croissant 16.
Signed with the artist's signature in reverse within the stone.
Plate evidently intended as the first of a projected suite of prints to appear under the title "Industrie des enfans", although the set was ultimately never continued by Gavarni; this print originally published in La Caricature, Apr. 26, 1840. Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Comprises plate 121 of a bound volume of prints by Gavarni.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 191 x 148 mm; sheet: 335 x 253 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a young street performer standing in profile to the right, carrying a drum, with a pair of dancing dolls or "marionettes a la planchette", and their strung board, over one arm.
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