Physionomies Parisiennes: Petit Commerce. La Monnaie d'un Ballon.
1857–58
Medium
Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/chine: 29.2 × 19.1 cm (11 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.); Sheet: 41.1 × 28 cm (16 3/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
9624
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...