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Paul Gavarni - Behind the scenes; Beautiful woman, you’re looking pretty nice tonight!

Behind the scenes; Beautiful woman, you’re looking pretty nice tonight! (1838)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
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Paul Gavarni

Paul Gavarni was the nom de plume of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier, a French illustrator, born in Paris.

Gavarni's father, Sulpice Chevalier, was from a family line of coopers from Burgundy. Paul began work as a mechanical worker in a machine factory but he saw that to make any progress in his profession, he had to be able to draw; accordingly in his spare time in the evenings, he took classes in drawing. He devoted his special attention to architectural and mechanical drawing and worked at land surveying and mapping which led to his obtaining a position with the Government Ordnance Department as a draughtsman. It wasn't until his early thirties that he turned his attention to his proper vocation as an artist.

His first published drawings were for the magazine Journal des modes.

At the time, Gavarni was barely thirty years of age. His sharp and witty drawings gave these generally commonplace and unartistic figures a life-likeness and an expression which soon won him a name in fashionable circles. He gradually gave greater attention to this more congenial work, and ultimately stopped working as an engineer to become the director of the journal Les Gens du monde.

Gavarni followed his interests, and began a series of lithographed sketches in which he portrayed the most striking characteristics, foibles and vices of the various classes of French society. The letterpress explanations attached to his drawings were short, but were forcible and humorous, if sometimes trivial, and were adapted to the particular subjects. At first he confined himself to the study of Parisian manners, more especially those of the Parisian youth.

Most of his best work appeared in Le Charivari. He had been invited by the editor François Caboche to draw for the magazine. Gavarni had never drawn caricatures and was reluctant to accept the request but was persuaded to submit some drawings for approval. This he did and they were accepted but he didn't care for the captions which had been added by the magazine editors. Thereafter, he started writing his own. This was the beginning of the Boites aux lettres series.

Some of his most scathing and most earnest pictures, the fruit of a visit to London, appeared in L'Illustration. He also illustrated Honoré de Balzac's novels, and Eugène Sue's Wandering Jew.

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Ô Henry Henry mon Dieu, mon Dieu. Heureusement que ton Amedée te reste

Ô Henry Henry mon Dieu, mon Dieu. Heureusement que ton Amedée te reste (1840)

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Le mien est blond, je n’aime pas les blonds t’aimes pas les bruns changeons

Le mien est blond, je n’aime pas les blonds t’aimes pas les bruns changeons

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Madame la baronne, ces machines-là n’arriveraient pas si Mossieu votre mari n’était pas si fichu bête

Madame la baronne, ces machines-là n’arriveraient pas si Mossieu votre mari n’était pas si fichu bête

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Les femmes donnent au diable les romans

Les femmes donnent au diable les romans (1839)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Ah l’on vous menait au bois. voilà donc ce à quoi j’aurais été moi-même exposé

Ah l’on vous menait au bois. voilà donc ce à quoi j’aurais été moi-même exposé (1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Mais. il me semble.qu’on a.pipé ici. ma foi c’est bien des bêtises, ça ne fait rien

Mais. il me semble.qu’on a.pipé ici. ma foi c’est bien des bêtises, ça ne fait rien (1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Les artistes, O bon! M’ame Jean! V’la qui tire vot’ clos!

Les artistes, O bon! M’ame Jean! V’la qui tire vot’ clos! (1838)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Quand t’auras fait manger tes serins, M’ame Sénéchal, je voudrais bien déjeuner

Quand t’auras fait manger tes serins, M’ame Sénéchal, je voudrais bien déjeuner

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Mosieu, on ne peut pas voir papa, il est en train de faire faillite

Mosieu, on ne peut pas voir papa, il est en train de faire faillite (1838-1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Mosieu Belassis, moi j’ai pas des jambes en manches de veste

Mosieu Belassis, moi j’ai pas des jambes en manches de veste (1838-1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Mère est-ce que c’est la crevè de ce matin que t’as dit que ça serait toujours assez bon pour lui

Mère est-ce que c’est la crevè de ce matin que t’as dit que ça serait toujours assez bon pour lui (1838-1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Costume Study for Male Gypsy in ‘Zingaro’

Costume Study for Male Gypsy in ‘Zingaro’ (1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
.être fichues au violon comme des rien du tout

.être fichues au violon comme des rien du tout (1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Saprelotte Mosieu Arthur, vous me permettez de vous dire que ça ne peut pas toujours durer comme ça

Saprelotte Mosieu Arthur, vous me permettez de vous dire que ça ne peut pas toujours durer comme ça

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Monsieur Albert c’est un monsieur du Jardin-des-Plantes. Oh comme tu n’en as presque plus sur le dessus, des chev

Monsieur Albert c’est un monsieur du Jardin-des-Plantes. Oh comme tu n’en as presque plus sur le dessus, des chev (1838-1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
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