Le Phénakisticop
Paul Gavarni
1834
Medium
Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 14.8 × 11 cm (5 7/8 × 4 3/8 in.); Sheet: 29.7 × 22.3 cm (11 3/4 × 8 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
13596
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...