The Little Roadman
c. 1835
Medium
Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.5 × 14 cm (7 11/16 × 5 9/16 in.); Chine: 21.2 × 17 cm (8 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.); Sheet: 27 × 19.8 cm (10 11/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
78816
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...