Masks and faces: What, don't know Dachu's aunt?
1857–58
Medium
Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 20 × 16 cm (7 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Chine: 23.6 × 18.8 cm (9 5/16 × 7 7/16 in.); Sheet: 41.1 × 28.1 cm (16 3/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11064
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...