Les Artistes: Ma sainte te ressemble n'est pas Nini?
Date1838
Artist
Paul Gavarni
(French printmaker, illustrator, and painter, 1804–1866)
Illustration CitationLe Charivari, May 6, 1838
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 10 1/4 × 7 1/2 in. (26 × 19.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-463
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis caricature is from Gavarni's series Les Artistes, produced in 1838 for Le Charivari. Here the louche artist, lounging on his divan, suggests that his painting of a saint resembles his cigar-smoking model-mistress.
