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  • Title: Man in Night Dress
  • Creator: Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
  • Date Created: 1804-1866
  • Subject Keywords: man; genre; portrait
  • External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
  • Roles: Artist: Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
  • Provenance: William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
  • Object Type: watercolors
  • Medium: ink and ink wash with graphite underdrawing heightened with white on brown, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper
  • Inscriptions: "Gavarni" graphite, re-enforced with ink, in lower right; "les femmes...on croit que ça s'attache...et b'en non" in red ink, at bottom
  • Exhibitions: The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma. 2005-2006., Artful Deception: The Craft of the Forger. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City; Portland Museum of Art, Portland; The Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester; The Barnum Museum, Bridgeport. 1987-1992.
  • Dimensions: H: 11 9/16 x W: 8 1/4 in. (29.3 x 21 cm)
  • Credit Line: Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters
  • Classification: Painting & Drawing
  • Accession Number: 37.1424

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