Accession number
PML 141260.1
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris : Rittner et Goupil, 1832]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Print is untitled; title above supplied by Armelhault & Bocher.
Publication information from Armelhault & Bocher.
At upper left: Physionomie de la population de Paris; numbered at upper right: No. 2.
Initialed "G.i." within the stone.
Plate no. 2 of a published suite of 12 plates by Gavarni depicting the various costumes worn by the people of Paris, entitled Physionomie de la population de Paris (Paris : Rittner et Goupil, 1832; Lith. de Frey).
Inlaid into bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 1 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Publication information from Armelhault & Bocher.
At upper left: Physionomie de la population de Paris; numbered at upper right: No. 2.
Initialed "G.i." within the stone.
Plate no. 2 of a published suite of 12 plates by Gavarni depicting the various costumes worn by the people of Paris, entitled Physionomie de la population de Paris (Paris : Rittner et Goupil, 1832; Lith. de Frey).
Inlaid into bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 1 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Description
1 print : hand col. lithograph ; image: 196 x 135 mm; sheet: 204 x 140 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Full-length study of a woman in a fashionable gown with large "gigot" or "leg of mutton" sleeves, turned 3/4 to the left, her face eclipsed by a large bonnet.
Binding
1/4 red morocco; bound uniformly as a set with PML 141255-62.
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