The Commentary
1843
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19 × 13.5 cm (7 1/2 × 5 3/8 in.); Chine: 18.4 × 12.8 cm (7 1/4 × 5 1/16 in.); Sheet: 34.3 × 26.1 cm (13 9/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
9626
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...