Accession number
PML 141260.17
Creator
Desmadryl, N. (Narcisse), 1801- etcher.
Published
[Paris : L'Artiste, 1840]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
At head of image: L'Artiste.
Lettered with title; artist's signature at lower right.
Hand colored soft ground etching with roulette by N. Desmadryl after Gavarni; one of a set of four fashion plates published in the journal L'Artiste in 1840 (2nd series, v. 5) under the title "Travestissements", this plate facing p. 120.
Library's copy cut down to 220 x 153 mm, with loss of all lettering.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 17 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Lettered with title; artist's signature at lower right.
Hand colored soft ground etching with roulette by N. Desmadryl after Gavarni; one of a set of four fashion plates published in the journal L'Artiste in 1840 (2nd series, v. 5) under the title "Travestissements", this plate facing p. 120.
Library's copy cut down to 220 x 153 mm, with loss of all lettering.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 17 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Description
1 print : hand col. soft ground etching and roulette; sheet: 220 x 153 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Fashion plate of a woman seated on a sofa or divan, facing 3/4 to the left, with her hands in her lap and her legs crossed, wearing a gown trimmed with long tassels.
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