....un langoureux regard, dont l'expression tendre et résignée [print] / Gavarni.

Accession number: 
PML 141260.57
Author: 
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published: 
[Paris] : L'Artiste, [1837]
Description: 
1 print : lithograph ; image: 170 x 130 mm; sheet: 278 x 201 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Head of sheet: L'Artiste.
At lower right: Pasquier Delisle, histoire de l'an 1320. (Horace Raisson).
Lettered with title below image; "Lith. de Lemercier, Benard & Cie" directly below image at right; artist's signature in reverse, with date "1837", within the image at lower left.
Lithograph by Gavarni published in the journal L'Artiste.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 57 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 scene from Horace Raisson's Pasquier Delisle: two women, one young, one old, dressed in historical costume of the sixteenth(?) century, standing on a garden terrace, with the base of a large, square column at left.

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