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La Galerie de Girardon
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La Galerie de Girardon

Medium

Etching and engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 21 3/4 x 25 15/16 in. (55.2 x 65.9 cm) mount: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Nicolas Chevalier

1828–1902United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandSwitzerland

Born in May 1828 of a Swiss father and a Russian mother. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres (1976) mentions that Chevalier left Saint Petersburg, Russia, for Lausanne, Switzerland, at the age of 17; Thieme-Becker mentions that from 1845 he was living in Lausanne.