1792 [print] / par Gavarni.

Accession number: 
PML 141260.51
Author: 
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published: 
[Paris] : L'Artiste, [1834?]
Description: 
1 print : lithograph ; image: 174 x 121 mm; sheet: 317 x 242 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

At head of sheet: L'Artiste.
Lettered with title below image; "Imp. d'Aubert & Cie" directly below image at right; author's signature, reversed, within the image at left.
Lithograph by Gavarni published in the journal L'Artiste.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 51 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).

Provenance: 
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows a group of two men and a woman in an outdoor setting beside a large, square pedestal, all dressed in fashions of the late 18th century; the woman is seated at left in a light framed chair, wearing a tall, conical plumed hat; the two men stand in front of her, one in military uniform with his back to the viewer, the other facing forward and wearing a cutaway frock coat.

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