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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Les souliers neufs [print].

Accession number
PML 141262.21
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1835]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Armelhault & Bocher.
Initialed by the artist and dated "1835", in reverse, within the image at lower right.
Comprises plate 21 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 166 x 117 mm; sheet: 356 x 261 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a young woman standing in a garret room, facing 3/4 to the left; she is in the process of dressing and lifts the apron of her gown to better see the new shoe she has just laced onto her left foot; her right shoe is unlaced, and a bonnet sits on small dressing table against the wall at right.
Classification
Department