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Paul Gavarni - Costume prints

Costume prints (1820 - 1830)

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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Est-ce que vous n’en avez pas bientot assez, Angelina, du Carnaval

Est-ce que vous n’en avez pas bientot assez, Angelina, du Carnaval (1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
C’est égal, je trouve que le Parrain de la petite vient trop chez nous.. en v’là encore une creuse

C’est égal, je trouve que le Parrain de la petite vient trop chez nous.. en v’là encore une creuse (1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
C’est le papa de mossieu Arthur qui un mossieu embêtant Cré chien

C’est le papa de mossieu Arthur qui un mossieu embêtant Cré chien

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Study for ‘Petites causes celebres, No. 22′(‘Allez!…vous n’avez pas dans votre justice…’)

Study for ‘Petites causes celebres, No. 22′(‘Allez!…vous n’avez pas dans votre justice…’) (1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Henri est fort bien. mais je crois que c’est Charles que j’aime le mieux. Alors épouse Henri

Henri est fort bien. mais je crois que c’est Charles que j’aime le mieux. Alors épouse Henri (1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Quoi fich’ ce soir N’y a pas d’Opéra

Quoi fich’ ce soir N’y a pas d’Opéra

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Quand Maman aime bien petit Papa, elle appelle petit Papa, ma niniche

Quand Maman aime bien petit Papa, elle appelle petit Papa, ma niniche (1838-1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Caporal, on gèle dans votre satané violon

Caporal, on gèle dans votre satané violon (1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Masks and faces; Gentlemen of paper, 1. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

Masks and faces; Gentlemen of paper, 1. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt (1853)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Ecoutez Juliette Boudin m’a tout conté.

Ecoutez Juliette Boudin m’a tout conté. (1840-1841)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
C’est moi – C’est moi. – Elle me fait l’oeil

C’est moi – C’est moi. – Elle me fait l’oeil (1839-1841)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Mais pourquoi donc, Mosieu Bachu, que tu viens toujours embêter Papa comme ça pour ta mécanique

Mais pourquoi donc, Mosieu Bachu, que tu viens toujours embêter Papa comme ça pour ta mécanique (1838-1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Madame. Madame. Un billet de bal, pour un baiser de vous

Madame. Madame. Un billet de bal, pour un baiser de vous

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
A Sailor Standing on the Shore

A Sailor Standing on the Shore (1859)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Ce que c’est pourtant que nos sentiments

Ce que c’est pourtant que nos sentiments

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
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