The Café-Feeper, from Arts et Métiers
Bernard Gaillot
1838
Medium
Lithograph on buff wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 12.7 × 9 cm (5 × 3 9/16 in.); Sheet: 25.7 × 27.4 cm (10 1/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
39988
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Bernard Gaillot · 1780–1847
**Bernard Gaillot (1780–1847)** Born in Versailles on 17 February 1780, Bernard Gaillot emerged as a prominent French historical painter during the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. Little is known of his early life beyond his birthplace near the royal palace, but by 1795 he had settled in Paris, where he studied under the masterful Jacques-Louis David, the leading exponent of Neoclas...