"What are you looking for here, Philosopher?"
1847
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with watercolor additions, colored by hand
Dimensions
Image: 20.4 × 17.7 cm (8 1/16 × 7 in.); Sheet: 35.6 × 27.5 cm (14 1/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
70252
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...