Les-Parents-Terribles series: Jacques Maubourj et's son the viscount
Paul Gavarni
1852–53
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.3 × 16.2 cm (7 5/8 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 35.6 × 26.6 cm (14 1/16 × 10 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
10970
About the Artist
Paul Gavarni
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...