Les Invalides du Sentiment: Les deux Edmond
Paul Gavarni
1853
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 22.7 × 18.5 cm (8 15/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Sheet: 36.4 × 26.9 cm (14 3/8 × 10 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27464
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...