Masks and faces
1857–58
Medium
Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.1 × 15.8 cm (7 15/16 × 6 1/4 in.); Chine: 23 × 18.8 cm (9 1/16 × 7 7/16 in.); Sheet: 39.8 × 28.8 cm (15 11/16 × 11 3/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11048
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...