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Elle porta la main au léger marteau de fer [print] / Gavarni.

Accession number
PML 141262.24
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 initial in reverse, with date "1835", within the image at right.
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 24 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 191 x 129 mm; sheet: 356 x 262 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a young woman standing outside the door of a stone cottage, at right, with her left hand on the latch as she she turns to look away to the left.
Classification
Department