Pierrot
c. 1850–60
Paul Gavarni
Paul Gavarni (French, 1804–1866)
Drawings
Pierrot, c. 1850–60. Paul Gavarni (French, 1804–1866). Watercolor heightened with white gouache on off-white wove paper; sheet: 31.8 x 21 cm (12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1923.854 This drawing, by caricaturist Paul Gavarni, presents a character from pantomime and festival culture. Called Pierrot, he is recognizable by his comically ill-fitting clothes and was popular in performances during Gavarni's lifetime. The artist drew Pierrot several times late in his career, often adding humorous captions, which likely related to his work in printmaking and illustration. Around the time that Paul Gavarni made this drawing, he also created a series of prints called School of the Pierrots (1851–53), which chronicled the character's misadventures.
- Maker/Artist
- Gavarni, Paul
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- watercolor heightened with white gouache on off-white wove paper
- Medium
- watercolor, heightened, white, gouache, off-white, wove, paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 31.8 x 21 cm (12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Inscribed, lower right, in red wash: Gavarni; lower left, in red wash: Les femmes sont farces!
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1923.854
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- Miscellaneous Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collections, Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830, Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Museum Collection, French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections, Drawings from the Museum Collection, 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans, Drawings, French Watercolors, French Drawings, Brush Drawings, Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>French Watercolors, 1760–1860</em>. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (September 29–October 24, 1965).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 101B Prints & Drawings
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