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‘Take your place for the Quadrille!–Watch your Posture!’

Paul Gavarni

‘Take your place for the Quadrille!–Watch your Posture!’

1854-1858

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Paul Gavarni

‘Take your place for the Quadrille!–Watch your Posture!’

1854-1858

Physical Qualities Pen and black ink and transparent and opaque watercolor on paper, Sheet: 315 x 211 mm. (31.5 x 21.1 cm.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.18680
Full-length male figure in costume.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
The Maryland Institute, Baltimore, 'Exhibition of Paintings, Bronzes and Porcelains from the George A. Lucas Collection', 1911, p. 19, no. 72.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'French Drawings', May 1934.

The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Jan. 22 - Mar. 6, 1949.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'From Ingres to Gauguin, French Nineteenth-Century Pintings Owned in Maryland', Nov.-Dec. 1951, p. 27, no. 66.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'The George A. Lucas Collection', Oct. 12-Nov. 21, 1965, p. 66, no. 331.

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, "Au Théâtre," Jan. 6 - 26, 1969.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Watercolors and Drawings from the George A. Lucas Collection', July 24-Oct. 14, 1990.

Inscribed: RECTO: LC, ink, 'En place pour la contredanse!---et de la tenue!'; LRQ, ink, 'Gavarni'; VERSO: LR, graphite, '5' in circle

Artist

Paul Gavarni

1803–1865

French, 1804-1866
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