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Artist
- Name:
- Gavarni, Paul
- Dates:
- 1804-1866
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- People
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Lavieille, Jacques Adrien
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- St. Michael's College Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Les français peints par eux-mêmes, vol. 1
- Author(s):
- Collective work
- Publisher:
- Paris: Léon Curmer, 1840
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
A young woman carries a package—she is probably on her way to deliver an order from a dressmaker—while looking sideways at the viewer.
Grisette is defined as follows by Émile Littré in Dictionnaire de la langue française: Young woman who has a trade, such as dressmaker, embroiderer, etc., and who readily allows young men to court her.
(For the definition of lorette and a little more information on respectability rankings in nineteenth-century French society, see this footnote to our article on Paul Gavarni.)
Keywords: 1840s, 19th century, Album of types, color, costume, female, France, portrait, reference book
