The Magic Lantern
1854
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/chine: 13.9 × 17 cm (5 1/2 × 6 3/4 in.); Sheet: 25.2 × 32.4 cm (9 15/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
116580
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...