Self-Portrait
Paul Gavarni
1842
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 22.4 × 15.6 cm (8 7/8 × 6 3/16 in.); Sheet: 31.8 × 24.4 cm (12 9/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
13568
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...