Portrait of Henri Bonaventure Monnier, 1853
Paul Gavarni (Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier)expand_more
Lithographexpand_more
Gift of Eric G. Carlson in honor of Kristin Lenaburgexpand_more 2009.30.4
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Paul Gavarni was among the finest watercolorists of the nineteenth century and he is equally celebrated as a master of lithography. In Le Peintre de la vie moderne (1863), Baudelaire referred to Gavarni as a “veritable monument;” he concurred with his contemporaries that the works of Gavarni and Daumier should be considered the visual complements to Balzac’s literary masterpiece, La Comédie humaine. The museum owns some 150 lithographs, four watercolors, and one lithographic stone by Gavarni, as well as some thirty works by Monnier.
Details
- Title
- Portrait of Henri Bonaventure Monnier
- Artist Life
- 1804–1866
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2009.30.4
- Provenance
- Caracalla Gallery, Lyon, France (1991); Eric G. Carlson, New York
- Catalogue Raisonne
- A/B. 51 iii/iv
- Curator Approved
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