Accession number
PML 141260.37
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : La Mode, [1830?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Head of sheet: La Mode.
Lettered with title below image; "Lith. de Frey" below image at right; signed "Gavarni" in reverse within the image at lower right.
Lithograph by Gavarni published as plate no. 115 in the journal La Mode.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 37 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Lettered with title below image; "Lith. de Frey" below image at right; signed "Gavarni" in reverse within the image at lower right.
Lithograph by Gavarni published as plate no. 115 in the journal La Mode.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 37 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image approx.: 160 x 122 mm; sheet: 283 x 198 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a young and fashionably dressed group of three men and two women in an opera box at the theater; the two women are seated at the front of the box, with the men seated and standing behind them; the woman at right has turned around in her seat to address the man sitting behind, while one of the other men standing behind at center peers through an opera glass.
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