Alfred Feydeau, from Etudes d'enfants
Paul Gavarni
1833
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 20 × 16 cm (7 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 36.7 × 27.2 cm (14 1/2 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
72513
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Paul Gavarni · 1804–1866
Paul Gavarni, born Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier on January 13, 1804, in Paris to a cooper father from Burgundy and mother Marie-Monique Thiémet—whose brother, painter Guillaume Thiémet, served as his godfather—began his career far from the art world. As a youth, he worked in a machine factory and studied mechanical drawing at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers in 1818, followed by evening classe...