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Voyons!

Author: Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard (French, 1802–1872)
Printer: Armand-Auguste Caqué (French, 1793–1881)
After: Paul Gavarni (Hippolyte Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier) (French, 1804–1866)
Printed by: A. Zurcher
French
1852

Medium/Technique Photolithograph
Dimensions Sheet: 30 × 22.2 cm (11 13/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberKBR64.7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPage from Sylvester Rosa Koehler's copy of Louis Blanquart-Evrard's "La Photographie."
Marks Verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the collector's mark of Sylvester Rosa Koehler (Lugt 1580)
InscriptionsTop left, in plate: Oeuvres de Gavarni
Top right, in plate: Glichy
Lower center, in plate: Voyons! pour aller à Tivoli ce soir il faudrait d'abord payer au greffe dix-huit mille cinq / cents francs pour le capital, et onze cent vingt-neuf francs cinquante centimes de frais... et encore / non (je suis bête!). Tivoli coûte trois francs d’entrée, et je n’ai que quarante-deux sous.
Lower left, in plate: Par Gavarni
Lower center, in plate: Photo-Lithographié par Zurcher
Lower right, in plate: Gravé par Caque
Verso, center, in graphite: From Blanquart-Evrard
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: October 20, 1898)

NOTE:
Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited the majority of his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.