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Toilettes de bal [print].

Accession number
PML 141260.6
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : Journal des gens du monde, 1834.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
At upper left: Journal des gens du monde; at upper right: Modes. Paris. Février, 1834.
Lettered with title; with "par Gavarni" directly below image; "l'Adm. rue Castiglione, No. 5" at lower left; "Imp. par Benard" at lower right.
Lithographic fashion plate by Gavarni published in the Journal des gens du monde.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 6 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Description
1 print : hand col. lithograph ; image: 190 x 146 mm; sheet: 276 x 205 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Two women, one seated (right) and the other standing (left), both dressed in fashionable gowns with large "gigot" sleeves; the woman at left wearing a turban and holding a handkerchief and fan; the woman at left adorned with sprays of flowers in her hair and holding a small bouquet in her lap.
Classification
Department