Vive la France, "French" Style in Broadway
Alfred E. Baker
1840 · Lithograph, hand colored · Drawings and Prints
This image of a dapper gentleman wearing a top hat and tailcoat, with ribbon on his lapel, and escorting two ladies similarly dressed in shawls and bonnets with veils may caricature Edward Dechaux, a prominent art dealer who also manufactured canvases for artists, stamping his name on the back (an example is at the New York Historical Society (for related prints see 54.90.1083 and 54.90.1357-.1358).
- Artist
- Alfred E. Baker
- Date
- 1840
- Medium
- Lithograph, hand colored
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954
