Carnevale
Achille Devéria
1830
Medium
lithograph on chine collé
Dimensions
sheet: 54.1 × 36 cm (21 5/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2016.198.5
About the Artist
Achille Devéria · 1800–1857
Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria (1800–1857) was a French painter and lithographer whose prolific output and sophisticated portrait work made him one of the most important visual chroniclers of French Romantic culture. Born in Paris on February 6, 1800, Devéria came of age during the Restoration period and became closely associated with the Romantic movement that dominated French arts and letter...