The Street Sweeper (Le Cantonnier)
Paul Gavarni
c. 1848/1852
Medium
watercolor, gouache, and red chalk on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 31.9 x 20.8 cm (12 9/16 x 8 3/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John C. Weber
Accession Number
1990.40.1
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...