Jésus! Il vient de me passer une bête...

1842

Paul Gavarni

Artist, French, 1804 - 1866

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hand-colored lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift in memory of Alan Ostrow

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.8 × 15.6 cm (7 13/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 35.7 × 27.4 cm (14 1/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.184.10

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Maherault and Bocher, no. 802, State iii/iii

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Stephen and Claudine Ostrow, Silver Spring, MD; gift to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2002

  • Mahérault, Marie Joseph François. L'oeuvre de Gavarni: catalogue raisonné des estampes / J. Armelhaut, E. Bocher. Dijon: L'Echelle de Jacob, 2002: no. 802, iii/iii

Inscriptions

upper center above image: LES LORETTES. / 40; lower left below image: Chez Pannier Edit R. du Croissant, 16.; lower center below image: PAR GAVARNI / Chez Aubert Pl. de la Bourse / --Jesus! il vient de me passer une bête... / --C'est quelque barbillon qui sera venu flâner par ici, histoire de faire son petit jugement de Pâris, le gueux!; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: C17424

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