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

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

Distraction [print].

Accession number
PML 141262.12
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : Journal de France, [1833]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Armelhault & Bocher.
Signed by the artist, in reverse, within the image at lower right.
Print published in the Journal de France (formerly the Bagatelle), Dec. 3, 1833.
Library's copy is a proof before all letters; the first state of three, according to Armelhault & Bocher.
Comprises plate 12 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 160 x 121 mm; sheet: 355 x 260 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a young woman sitting onthe end of a sofa with a magazine or brochure in her hands, her face turned away 3/4 to the right; she wears a gown with full gigot sleeves and a plumed bonnet; a pedestal topped with an urn stands at her elbow at right.
Classification
Department