"Voilà cette petite danseuse don’t je l'ai parle, mon oncle; elle est un peu…/Bossue./Charmante!/et mal jambée" plate 1 from the series Les Parents Terribles (Terrible Parents)

"Voilà cette petite danseuse don’t je l'ai parle, mon oncle; elle est un peu…/Bossue./Charmante!/et mal jambée" plate 1 from the series Les Parents Terribles (Terrible Parents)

Artist Paul Gavarni (French, 1804 - 1866)

Date1852

Mediumlithograph

DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 x 6 3/8 in. (19.1 x 16.2 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Robert Getscher from the Getscher-Wilkinson Collection

CultureFrench

PortfolioMasques et Visages; Les Parents Terribles (Terrible Parents)

Catalogue raisonnéArmelhault and Bocher (2004) 366-7.1420 ii/ii

Object numberPC2014.14.23

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionIn a theater box a young man leans to a man seated next to him whose hand is on his chin. Behind them two balding men peer through their opera glasses. Part of series 'Les Parents Terribles', twenty plates published by the Paris Journal 1852-53.

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