Masks and faces
Paul Gavarni
1857–58
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21 × 16 cm (8 5/16 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 39.3 × 28.5 cm (15 1/2 × 11 1/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11030
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...