Accession number
PML 141262.89
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : Publié par Jte Bourmancé, éditeur, [1838]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Signature of the artist, reversed, within the image at lower right; below image at lower left: Gavarni del.; below image at lower right: Lith. de Roger & Cie 7 Rue Richer; at foot of sheet: Publié par Jte Bourmancé, éditeur. 14 Boulevard Montmartre; at right of imprint: (Les Confessions. L. II.).
No. 2 of a set of 6 lithographs created by Gavarni illustrating Rouseau's Confessions and appearing under the collective title La jeunesse de J.J. Rouseau; the suite published as part of a series with the title "La littérature illustrée", of which only this set and one other, "Jocelyn, poëm de Lamartine", appear to have been published. Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Comprises plate 89 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
No. 2 of a set of 6 lithographs created by Gavarni illustrating Rouseau's Confessions and appearing under the collective title La jeunesse de J.J. Rouseau; the suite published as part of a series with the title "La littérature illustrée", of which only this set and one other, "Jocelyn, poëm de Lamartine", appear to have been published. Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Comprises plate 89 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 191 x 149 mm; sheet: 356 x 261 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the young Rousseau standing, at right, before the doorway of the church at Annecy in the company of Madame de Warens, who reads a letter he has delivered to her.
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