Accession number
PML 141260.53
Creator
Marvy, Louis, 1815-1850, etcher.
Published
[Paris] : L'Artiste, [1850]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption continues: ... Et a moi sur le Quai des Morfondus.
At head of sheet: L'Artiste.
Lettered with title below image.
Soft ground etching, with line and roulette, after Gavarni; published in the journal L'Artiste, 5e série, tome 4, 6e livr., p. 96; a copy, reduced in scale, of a lithograph by Gavarni originally published in Le Charivari, Feb 5, 1848, as plate no. 5 of the suite entitled Des mères de famille (see Armelhault & Bocher 1080), the original caption reading: Si tu veux réussir ici, sois gracieux pour le gilet blanc que voilà et pour le gilet de velours, qui est l'ami du gilet blanc ...
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 53 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
At head of sheet: L'Artiste.
Lettered with title below image.
Soft ground etching, with line and roulette, after Gavarni; published in the journal L'Artiste, 5e série, tome 4, 6e livr., p. 96; a copy, reduced in scale, of a lithograph by Gavarni originally published in Le Charivari, Feb 5, 1848, as plate no. 5 of the suite entitled Des mères de famille (see Armelhault & Bocher 1080), the original caption reading: Si tu veux réussir ici, sois gracieux pour le gilet blanc que voilà et pour le gilet de velours, qui est l'ami du gilet blanc ...
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 53 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Description
1 print : soft ground etching touched with roulette ; image: 132 x 111 mm; sheet: 307 x 232 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows two men closely engaged in conversation at a party.
Classification
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