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Marie de France et Jean des Essarts (1405) [print] / Gavarni.

Accession number
PML 141262.77
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1844]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Below image at lower left: Gavarni; at lower right: Imp Bertauts.
One of 9 lithographs created by Gavarni to illustrate Paul Lacroix's Récits historiques à la jeunesse (Tours : R. Pornin, 1844).
Lithograph tinted with blue tint stone.
Comprises plate 77 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Library's copy is mounted on a larger album leaf.
Description
1 print : tinted lithograph ; image: 159 x 101 mm; sheet: 249 x 172 mm; mounted: 356 x 261 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a woman in medieval dress, viewed from the back, standing 3/4 to the left, with her hands clasped over her head in distress as a drowning man, with only his hands visible, sinks beneath the surface of the water at left.
Classification
Department