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Causerie [print] / Gavarni.

Accession number
PML 141260.35
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : L'Artiste, [1834?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Head of image: Journal des gens du monde.
Lettered with title below image; "Imp. par Benard" below image at right; signed "Gavarni" in reverse within the image at upper left.
Lithograph by Gavarni published in the Journal des gens du monde.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 35 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 143 x 148 mm; sheet: 255 x 207 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows two women seated side by side in conversation, both dressed in gowns with full, gigot sleeves; the woman at right wears a ruffled cap or bonnet with loose sashes, the woman at left wears an apron over the skirt of her gown and has her hair decorated with a large bow.
Classification
Department