Accession number
PML 141260.4
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris : Rittner et Goupil, 1832]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Publication information from Armelhault & Bocher.
At upper left: Physionomie de la population de Paris; numbered at upper right: No. 7.
Lettered with title; with "Gavarni" and "Lith. de Frey" directly below image.
Plate no. 7 of a published suite of 12 plates by Gavarni depicting the various costumes worn by the people of Paris, entitled Physionomie de la population de Paris (Paris : Rittner et Goupil, 1832; Lith. de Frey).
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 4 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Library's copy closely trimmed with partial loss of caption title.
At upper left: Physionomie de la population de Paris; numbered at upper right: No. 7.
Lettered with title; with "Gavarni" and "Lith. de Frey" directly below image.
Plate no. 7 of a published suite of 12 plates by Gavarni depicting the various costumes worn by the people of Paris, entitled Physionomie de la population de Paris (Paris : Rittner et Goupil, 1832; Lith. de Frey).
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 4 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Library's copy closely trimmed with partial loss of caption title.
Description
1 print : hand col. lithograph ; image: 196 x 135 mm; sheet: 218 x 143 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Full-length study of a painter, standing beside a large bucket and turned slightly to the left, wearing an apron and folded paper hat and holding a brush, sponge, and scraper.
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