Accession number
PML 141261.4
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
Paris : Imp. Bertauts, [185-?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Lettered with caption title, imprint, and artist's name.
One of seven lithographs made by Gavarni for a series of 240 prints executed by various artists, published in 10 volumes under the title Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes (Paris: printed by Bertauts, 1846-1862), this print being plate 150 from volume 7 of the collection.
Image printed with yellow-beige tint.
Comprises plate 8 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni.
One of seven lithographs made by Gavarni for a series of 240 prints executed by various artists, published in 10 volumes under the title Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes (Paris: printed by Bertauts, 1846-1862), this print being plate 150 from volume 7 of the collection.
Image printed with yellow-beige tint.
Comprises plate 8 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni.
Description
1 print : tinted lithograph ; image: 214 x 164 mm; sheet: 387 x 280 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Blindstamped with the series title below image: Les artistes anciens et modernes.
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an artist's model standing in a smock along side a statue for which she had posed, her face turned 3/4 to the right to demonstrate the resemblance between herself and the work of art.
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