Head of a Young Man (Study for L'Oiseau de passage)
1853
Paul Gavarni
Paul Gavarni (French, 1804–1866)
Drawings
Head of a Young Man (Study for L'Oiseau de passage), 1853. Paul Gavarni (French, 1804–1866). Graphite and red chalk with stylus heightened with white on off-white woven paper; sheet: 23.6 x 16.6 cm (9 5/16 x 6 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.352
- Maker/Artist
- Gavarni, Paul
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- graphite and red chalk with stylus heightened with white on off-white woven paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 23.6 x 16.6 cm (9 5/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: across bottom, in graphite: Etude pour l'Oiseau de passage (Planche 20 des Partageuses.); verso, lower right, in graphite: 38-40; lower left, in graphite: gris bleu / noir; on secondary support, lower right, in graphite: jeunehomme / couché; verso of secondary support, upper right, in graphite: Helleu; center right, in black chalk: Vente goncourt / [illegible]; lower left, in blue ink: Etude pour "oiseau de passage", planche 20 des Partageuses / provient du grenier - Vente Goncourt. Collection de peintre Helleu / Racheté à Mlle ["lle" underlined] Paulette Helleu 1933.
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 2008.352
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Exhibitions
- French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin, Winter Exhibition 1974, Shepherd Gallery, New York (1974), no cat.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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