Accession number
PML 141261.3
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1853?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title and date from Armelhault & Bocher.
1st state, showing Mélingue clean shaven, with "Imp. Bertauts" at lower right, without caption title or other lettering. Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Artist's signature in reverse within the stone.
Library's copy printed on chine collé.
Comprises plate 3 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni.
1st state, showing Mélingue clean shaven, with "Imp. Bertauts" at lower right, without caption title or other lettering. Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Artist's signature in reverse within the stone.
Library's copy printed on chine collé.
Comprises plate 3 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; sheet: 387 x 280 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Full-length portrait of actor, dramatist, and sculptor, Étienne Marin Mélingue, standing 3/4 to the right, with his left hand in his pants pocket and right hand resting on a parapet, lacking the mustache present in later states of this portrait.
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