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Paul Gavarni - Mossieu Mossieu chez qui vous croyez-vous ici

Mossieu Mossieu chez qui vous croyez-vous ici

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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On rend des comptes au gérant

On rend des comptes au gérant

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Avoir perdu ses plus belles années, tout ce qu’on avait d’illusion, de simplicité de coeur, beauté. jeunesse

Avoir perdu ses plus belles années, tout ce qu’on avait d’illusion, de simplicité de coeur, beauté. jeunesse

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
On rit avec vous et tu te faches. en voilà un drôle de pistolet

On rit avec vous et tu te faches. en voilà un drôle de pistolet (1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Houp houp papa. ah mais tu ne fais pas si bien le cheval que Janisset, dam. Ah comme il faisait bien le chev

Houp houp papa. ah mais tu ne fais pas si bien le cheval que Janisset, dam. Ah comme il faisait bien le chev (1838-1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Comment Tu me vois avec un mosieu. vous ne serez donc toute votre vie qu’un homme sans aucune espèce de formes.

Comment Tu me vois avec un mosieu. vous ne serez donc toute votre vie qu’un homme sans aucune espèce de formes. (1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Où as-tu eu la petite que t’as

Où as-tu eu la petite que t’as

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)
Toujours jolie

Toujours jolie

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Tu avais bien raison ma femme. ah bien on peut dire que voilà une rencontre bizarre

Tu avais bien raison ma femme. ah bien on peut dire que voilà une rencontre bizarre (1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Va donc. Singulier masculin

Va donc. Singulier masculin (1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
From nature; (I still have nine sous) . . . Waiter! . . . A partridge!

From nature; (I still have nine sous) . . . Waiter! . . . A partridge! (1857)

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)
On va pincer son petit cancan, mais bien en douceur

On va pincer son petit cancan, mais bien en douceur (1840)

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Ils vivent de ses rentes

Ils vivent de ses rentes

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
Les Arthurs couchés, les rats dansent

Les Arthurs couchés, les rats dansent

Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866)
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