At the Opera (Primary Title)
La Sylphide (Series Title)
Fashion Plate (Object Name)

Pierre-Numa Bassaget, called Numa, French, 19th Century (Artist)

ca. 1840
French
Works On Paper
Prints
hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Sheet: 12 × 8 1/2 in. (30.48 × 21.59 cm)
40.9.69
Not on view
Signed in plate lower left: Numa
Printed beneath image lower right: 3e. V. No. 8. Printed beneath image in center: La Sylphide/ Coiffure de (Me. Dasse) façon de Robe de (Camille) Sous Tupe (Oudinot) Gants Blés de (Mayev) Costume d'homme des/ ateliers de (Roolf) Chapeau de (Biget) expedié du Chateau de Bxx par la Mon de Commission (Giroud de Gaud et Cie)/ r. Lafflille s au ser./ Direction 1, cité des Italiens. Inscribed in graphite lower right: 18. Inscribed in graphite on verso upper right: about 1840.
Gift of Margaret Dashiell
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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