Gauthier

Name/Title

Gauthier

Entry/Object ID

2003-14-777

Artwork Details

Medium

Gouache

Made/Created

Artist

De Tirtoff, Romain (Erte)

Date made

1936

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

12" (h) x 15" (v)

Interpretative Labels

Label

(from 2016.Klassics for Kids) Erté Russian, 1892-1990 Gauthier, 1936 gouache Erté, whose birth name was Romain de Tirtoff, was a famous costume designer in Paris in the early part of the twentieth century. This costume is for Gauthier, the Pope’s servant in L’auberge du chat coiffé (The Hotel of the Cat with a Cap), a 1936 comic operetta set in the fourteenth century. Animals and humans wear decorations. Design a fancy costume for you and your pet.