Grisette

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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:
Collective work
Publisher:
Paris: Léon Curmer, 1840
Open Library:
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Description:

A young woman carries a package—she could be on her way to deliver an order from a dressmaker.

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.)

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