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The Twelve Months: August
Paul Gavarni1866
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Details
- Title: The Twelve Months: August
- Creator: Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
- Date Created: 1866
- Subject Keywords: man; allegory
- 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, 1870, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Object Type: drawings
- Medium: watercolor and ink wash with graphite underdrawing on cream, thick, slightly textured wove paper
- Inscriptions: "Gavarni" in red ink, lower left; "Aout [sic] (Thermidor)" in graphite, verso
- Exhibitions: French Pre-Impressionist Painters of the Nineteenth Century. Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg. 1954., Gavarni. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1993., 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.
- Dimensions: 12 5/8 x 8 13/16 in. (32.1 x 22.4 cm)
- Credit Line: Acquired by William T. Walters, 1870
- Classification: Painting & Drawing
- Accession Number: 37.147
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