The Boudoir Key Opens Many Secrets

Series TitleMasques et Visages

Artist Paul Gavarni (French, 1804 - 1866)

Date1857-1858

MediumLithograph

DimensionsImage: 7 15/16 × 6 3/8 inches (20.16 × 16.19 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number32-74/59

On View

Not on view

Collections

Prints

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Exhibition History

[No known exhibitions at this time]

Provenance

With Knoedler and Company, New York, by May 1, 1932 [1];

Purchased from Knoedler by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

NOTES:

[1] No record of this print in Knoedler Dealer Stock Books on the Getty Provenance Index, Los Angeles.

Published References

J. Armelhault and Emmanuel Bocher, L’Œuvre de Gavarni: Lithographies originales et essais d’eau-forte et de procédés nouveaux (Paris: 1873), no. 1802 III.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 297, as The Boudoir Key Opens Many Secrets, Plate III from Masques et Visages (new series).

J. Armelhault and Emmanuel Bocher, Gavarni: Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2004), no. 1802 III.

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