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Paul Gavarni
1814 - 1866
Medium
pen
Dimensions
269; 205
About this artwork
…; from the dealer P. Brandt, Amsterdam, fl. 500, to the museum, 1943
About the Artist
Paul Gavarni
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...