Accession number
PML 141260.14
Creator
Desmadryl, N. (Narcisse), 1801- etcher.
Published
[Paris : L'Artiste, 1840]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
At head of image: L'Artiste.
Lettered with title; artist's signature at lower right.
Hand colored soft ground etching with roulette by N. Desmadryl after Gavarni; one of a pair of fashion plates published in the journal L'Artiste in 1840 (2nd series, v. 6) under the title "Physionomie des modes", this plate following p. 180.
According to the index to the 1840 volume of L'Artiste on p. 427, the plate was executed by N. Desmadryl, with Mme. Pecquereau responsible for the hand coloring.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 14 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Lettered with title; artist's signature at lower right.
Hand colored soft ground etching with roulette by N. Desmadryl after Gavarni; one of a pair of fashion plates published in the journal L'Artiste in 1840 (2nd series, v. 6) under the title "Physionomie des modes", this plate following p. 180.
According to the index to the 1840 volume of L'Artiste on p. 427, the plate was executed by N. Desmadryl, with Mme. Pecquereau responsible for the hand coloring.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 14 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Description
1 print : hand col. soft ground etching and roulette ; image: 214 x 168 mm; sheet: 283 x 218 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Fashion plate of a young woman standing out of doors in the wind, facing 3/4 to the left, wearing a bonnet, gown with gigot sleeves, and long fringed shawl, holding a closed umbrella or parasol.
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