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Costume de Mme. la Marquise de L.... [print].

Accession number
PML 141260.28
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : L'Artiste, [1835]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Head of sheet: L'Artiste.
Lettered with title below image; "Lith. de Frey" directly below image at center; signed "Gavarni" in reverse within the image at lower left.
Lithograph by Gavarni published in the journal L'Artiste in 1835.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 28 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 171 x 110 mm; sheet: 283 x 197 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a young woman standing on a terrace, full length, facing the viewer, with her face turned 3/4 to the right; she wears a "medieval" costume with enormous open sleeves and breeches with loose, looped strips of fabric, the ensemble topped with a plumed cap.
Classification
Department