A French Widow (Primary Title)
Le Journal des Dames et des Demoiselles (Series Title)
Fashion Plate (Object Name)

Emile Préval, French, born 1845 (Artist)
A. Bodin, French, 19th century (Artist)

ca. 1869
French
Works On Paper
Prints
hand-colored engraving on wove paper mounted overall to blue paper support
Mount (blue paper support): 12 × 8 1/2 in. (30.48 × 21.59 cm)
Sheet: 9 5/16 × 6 5/8 in. (23.65 × 16.83 cm)
40.9.87
Not on view
Signed in plate lower left: Preval. Signed in plate lower right: A Bodin.
Printed beneath image lower left: Leroy impr. des Marais, 66, Paris. Printed beneath image lower right: Ad. Goubaud & Fils Edrs. Paris. Printed beneath image in center: Le Journal des Dames et des Demoiselles. Inscribed in graphite on mount lower right: 36. Inscribed in graphite on verso of mount, in upper right corner: 1869; and in center: 1868. Inscribed in ink on verso of mount in center: A French Widow/ a real bit of living/ by Emile Preval.
Gift of Margaret Dashiell
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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