Accession number
PML 141262.35
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : L'Artiste, [1835]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Head of sheet: L'Artiste.
At lower right: (La Ve. du Miguelet / Michel Raymond).
Lettered with title below image; "Imp. par Frey" directly below image at right; artist's signature, in reverse, with date "1835", within the image at left.
Lithograph by Gavarni published in the journal L'Artiste.
Library's copy is a proof before all letters; the first state of two, according to Armelhault & Bocher.
Comprises plate 35 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
At lower right: (La Ve. du Miguelet / Michel Raymond).
Lettered with title below image; "Imp. par Frey" directly below image at right; artist's signature, in reverse, with date "1835", within the image at left.
Lithograph by Gavarni published in the journal L'Artiste.
Library's copy is a proof before all letters; the first state of two, according to Armelhault & Bocher.
Comprises plate 35 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 178 x 132 mm; sheet: 356 x 262 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows two young women outside the door of a stone cottage; one of the women is leaning over with her eye to the keyhole as the other stands behind her, leaning against the door as she looks on at her spying companion.
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