Gulliver Awed by Three Giant Beggars in the Land of Brobdingnag

1862

Paul Gavarni

Artist, French, 1804 - 1866

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper, laid down

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 23.2 x 16.4 cm (9 1/8 x 6 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.26.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie's Paris, 21 November 2007, no. 224); (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London); purchased 2009 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 16.

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Inscriptions

lower right in pen and red ink: Gavarni

Wikidata ID

Q64619038

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