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Portrait of Gavarni (Self-portrait)

1842

Medium/Technique Lithograph: crayon and brush, with scraping, on thin gray paper mounted during printing, 2nd state.
Dimensions 18.73 x 13.97 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Louis Curtis Fund
Accession Number37.101
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné J. Armelhault & E. Bocher, p. 6, No. 34
DescriptionPrinted by Bertauts, Paris. Appeared in Les Beaux-Arts, Paris, Curmer, 1st vol, 1843.
See duplicate 51.1763.
The caricaturist Gavarni here presents himself in elegantly casual bohemian costume.
ProvenanceMarcel Guinot, Paris from whom purchased ($20) 1/14/1937