A Poor Family
1843
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/chine: 24.5 × 21.3 cm (9 11/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 39.2 × 28.7 cm (15 7/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
78889
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...