Minneapolis Institute of Art

Paul Gavarni smoking a cigarette

Léopold Flameng; after Paul Gavarni (Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier)

Date

1842

Medium

Etching

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Léopold Flameng was a painter and printmaker active in 19th-century Paris. He achieved great skill as a draftsman, engraver, and etcher. The present work is a portrait of Paul Gavarni—himself a major French illustrator—based on the sitter’s own lithographic self-portrait. France, Europe

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