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Vision d'Eustache [print] / par Gavarni.

Accession number
PML 141262.75
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : A. Royer, [1843]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
At foot of image: Par Gavarni; below image at lower right: Imp. d'Aubert & Cie; at lower left: A. Royer; at upper left: Schmid.
Lithograph created by Gavarni to illustrate a translation of Christoph von Schmid's "Eustachius", as it appeared in: Contes du chanoine Schmid (Paris : A. Royer, 1843). Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Lithograph tinted with beige tint stone.
Comprises plate 75 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Library's copy is mounted on a larger album leaf.
The 3rd state, with "Imp. d'Aubert & Cie" in the place of "Lith. Bertauts, Paris" at lower right. Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Description
1 print : tinted lithograph ; image: 175 x 121 mm; sheet: 264 x 178 mm; mounted: 356 x 261 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Saint Eustace, seated on a rock with a bow and arrow at his knee, holding one hand to his head in wonder as he regards a large stag standing before him at right.
Classification
Department