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Costume de bal (1835) [print] / Gavarni.

Accession number
PML 141262.25
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : L'Artiste, [1835]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Head of sheet: L'Artiste.
Lettered with title; with "Gavarni" at lower left; "Lith. de Frey" at lower right.
Lithographic fashion plate by Gavarni published in the journal L'Artiste in 1835.
Library's copy is a proof before all letters; the first state of two, according to Armelhault & Bocher.
Comprises plate 25 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 182 x 118 mm; sheet: 356 x 261 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a fashionably dressed woman facing to the right, her faced turned toward the viewer, holding a nosegay in her left hand.
Classification
Department