....un langoureux regard, dont l'expression tendre et résignée [print] / Gavarni.

Accession number: 
PML 141262.38
Author: 
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published: 
[Paris] : L'Artiste, [1835]
Description: 
1 print : lithograph ; image: 170 x 130 mm; sheet: 356 x 263 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Title from Armelhaut & Bocher.
Artist's signature in reverse, with date, "1835", within the image at lower left.
Lithograph by Gavarni published in the journal L'Artiste.
Later published state, dated "1837", is lettered with title below image and "Lith. de Lemercier, Benard & Cie" directly below image at right;
Library's copy is a proof without letters; the first state of two according to Armelhault & Bocher, without letters and dated "1835" within image.
Comprises plate 38 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).

Provenance: 
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows a scene from Horace Raisson's Pasquier Delisle: two women, one young, one old, dressed in historical costume of the sixteenth(?) century, standing on a garden terrace, with the base of a large, square column at left.

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