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Peasant Girl Smoking
Paul Gavarni1849
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Details
- Title: Peasant Girl Smoking
- Creator: Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
- Date Created: 1849
- Subject Keywords: peasant; child; genre
- 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. Walters, Baltimore, 1866, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Object Type: drawings
- Medium: watercolor and chalk with white heightening on brown, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper
- Inscriptions: "Gavarni" in lower right; "à Glasgow" in lower left; "5" in graphite, verso
- Exhibitions: Watercolors and Drawings by Gavarni. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 1953-1954., 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., Gavarni. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1993., A Supple Brush: The Flowering of Continental Watercolors. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979., A Connoisseur's Portfolio: Nineteenth-century Drawings and Watercolors in the Walters Art Gallery. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1983.
- Dimensions: H: 12 1/4 x W: 8 13/16 in. (31.1 x 22.4 cm)
- Credit Line: Acquired by William T. Walters, 1866
- Classification: Painting & Drawing
- Accession Number: 37.1423
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