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La poupée [print] / Gavarni.

Accession number
PML 141260.48
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 right; artist's signature in reverse within the image at lower right.
Lithograph by Gavarni published in the journal L'Artiste.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 48 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 160 x 130 mm; sheet: 246 x 182 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a girl seated in a garden on a stone bench at left with a doll in her hands; a smaller girl stands beside her, with her hands in the older girls lap, and a boy stands in front of her at right, bending over with his hands on his hips as he looks down at the doll; all three children are dressed in the style of the 18th century.
Classification
Department