Charles Chandellier
1842
Medium
Lithograph in black on white China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.1 × 18.9 cm (8 5/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Chine: 24.3 × 18.9 cm (9 9/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 35.5 × 27.2 cm (14 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11125
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...