Ascension au Pic de Bergons [print] / Gavarni.

Accession number: 
PML 141260.61
Author: 
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published: 
[Paris] : L'Artiste, [1834]
Description: 
1 print : lithograph ; image: 131 x 170 mm; sheet: 214 x 284 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Head of sheet: L'Artiste.
Lettered with title below image; "Imp. par Frey" directly below image at right; artist's signature, in reverse, within the image at lower left.
Lithograph by Gavarni published in the journal L'Artiste.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 61 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).

Provenance: 
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows a young couple on a mountain path, accompanied by a guide, admiring the view from a rocky outcropping; the man reclines on a boulder with an umbrella as the young women stands to his left, her skirt and scarf blowing in the wind.

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