Fashion Plate (Object Name)
La Mode (Series Title)

Paul Gavarni, French, 1804 - 1866 (Artist)

ca. 1830
French
Prints
Works On Paper
hand-colored engraving on wove paper mounted overall to blue paper support
Mount (blue paper support): 11 1/2 × 15 1/4 in. (29.21 × 38.74 cm)
Sheet: 9 × 5 3/4 in. (22.86 × 14.61 cm)
40.9.134
Not on view
Signed in plate lower left: Gavarni. Signed in plate lower right: C. Hell sculp.
Printed above image in center: La Mode. Printed beneath image lower left: Pl. LIX. Printed beneath image lower right: T.3. Printed beneath image in center: Toilette négligée du matin/ Capotte de paille cousue de chez Me. Othtei., Rue du Helder, No. 20,/ Robe de Guingamp- Guêtres de prunelle./ Femme de chambre./ L'Administration de la Mode est Rue du Helder, No. 25. Inscribed in graphite in lower margin: 1830. Inscribed in ink on verso of mount in center: These plates are interesting/ as the early work of Gavarni before his/ famous cartoons and/ the life he expressed later/ in the cartoons shows in/ them.
Gift of Margaret Dashiell
Maherault, J., J. Armelhaut, Emmanuel Bocher. L'Oeuvre de Gavarni, lithographies originales et essais d'eau-forte et de procedés nouveaux (Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1873).
Comments: J. Maherault is pseudonym for J. Armelhaut. 300 copies. Reprint with illustrations. (Dijon: L'Echelle de Jacob, 2002) [MH-FA]. Reprint with English text (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2004).
Entries: 2,740. Millimeters. Inscriptions. States. Described.
OCLC: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=L%27Oeuvre+de+Gavarni%2C+lithographies+originales+et+essais+d%27eau-forte+et+de+proced%C3%A9s+nouveaux&qt=results_page

Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siècle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes (Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892) vol. VII, pp. 5-82.
Comments: 12 vols. Beraldi does not provide complete catalogues for all of the artists he lists. Riggs indexed all artists listed by Beraldi, but provides only a volume and page reference for those not fully catalogued.
Entries: 318+. Paper fold measure (selection).

Bouvy, Eugène. "Un état non decrit de la série 'Par-ci par-là' de Gavarni." L'Amateur d'estampes 7 (1928): 123-124.
Entries: Additional information to Maherault [Armelhaut] and Bocher.

Laran, Jean et al. Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1930-ongoing) vol. 8, pp. 465-581 [MH-FA].
Comments: 15 vols. Lists prints in the Bibliothèque nationale, and for many artists this is equivalent to a complete or nearly complete oeuvre-catalogue. The Print Council Index indicates only the number of entries, but often the catalogue also gives dimensions (millimeters), inscriptions, states and descriptions.
Entries: 488+.

Charles Philipon, La Caricature, 1830-1835: lithographies complètes: an illustrated catalogue raisonné of the lithographs (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2017).
Comments: 524 lithographs published in La Caricature by various artists. Illustrated.
Entries: See Comments.
OCLC: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=charles+philipon+raisonne&qt=results_page
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