Alfred de Musset
Paul Gavarni
1854
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 34.7 × 22 cm (13 11/16 × 8 11/16 in.); Sheet: 44.5 × 29.6 cm (17 9/16 × 11 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
20681
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...