Voyez-vous, mon petit Larrims...
1841
Medium
Lithograph in black on off-white China paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.5 × 18.9 cm (8 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.); Chine: 19.8 × 15.6 cm (7 13/16 × 6 3/16 in.); Sheet: 36.3 × 27.6 cm (14 5/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
43215
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...