Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Toilette du soir [print].

Accession number
PML 141260.24
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : La Mode, [1831?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
At head of sheet: La Mode.
Lettered with title directly below image; with "L'Administration est rue du Helder, 25.", below; "Lith. de Frey" at lower left; signed "Gavarni" in reverse within the image at lower right.
Lithograph by Gavarni published in the journal La Mode.
Library's copy printed on chine collé; the 2nd of two states, numbered "Pl. 118" at lower left.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 24 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 170 x 125 mm; sheet: 295 x 204 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A fashion plate of three young and stylishly dressed men in frock coats and cravats, standing together in a group and holding their hats; the two men at left face 3/4 to the right, while the man at right is turned away and showing his back to the viewer.
Classification
Department