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Bouffé, artiste du Gymnase dramatique, dans la Fille de l'avare [print].

Accession number
PML 141262.10
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1835.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Armelhault & Bocher.
Signed and dated "1835" by the artist, in reverse, within the image at lower right.
Identified by Armelhault & Bocher as an unpublished print; without all letters.
Comprises plate 10 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 168 x 131 mm; sheet: 355 x 260 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Full-length seated portrait of the actor Hugues Bouffé as the miser Grandet in Jean-François Bayard's comedy La Fille de l'avare; Bouffé is shown seated facing 3/4 to the left, clutching a coins in both hands, with his arm resting on a table top at left, the corner of which is strewn with more coins.
Classification
Department