Paul Gavarni (Hippolyte Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier). 1804-1886.
[Justice avocat. (LAWYER)]. "N'y a pas de doute, mon Président, qu'à ma place vous n'auriez pas abimé, comme c' homme là vous !...." (There is no doubt, my President, that in my place you would not have wrecked, like that, that man near you! ... ")1857. Lithograph. Image 8 x 6 5/8, image with text 10 1/4 x 7 3/8, sheet 15 3/8 x 11 1/8. Armelhault and Bocher 1269.ii. Bohêmes (Bohemians), from Masques et Visages by Paul Gavarni, New Series. Physionomies Parisiennes, plate 13. The series of 20 lithographs was published in 1857 by Lemercier & Cie, Paris. The figures were half-length or three quarter-length. This is an impression apart from the daily magazine, printed sur blanc. Accompanied by the original lithographic stone: image 8 x 6 5/8, stone 13 x 9 5/8 x 1 1/2 inches and weighs 19 pounds, 2 ounces. It is interesting to note that the stone contains only the image, not the text, which was later added when the complete lithograph was printed. Addit6ionally, the image is presented in the same direction on the stone and in the lithograph. Price upon request.
(L'amant): Nymphes des Bois, connaissez vous Adèle? (Le Dictionnaire des Rimes): Adèle! Pastourelle, charnelle, onzelle, matérielle, récelle, sempiternelle, femelle....Qu'elle demoiselle!
L'amant et le dictionnaire des rimes. (The Lover and the Rhyming Dictionary) July 7, 1839. Lithograph. 7 7/8 x 6 1/4 (image), 10 1/3 x 9 (border), 14 5/8 x 10 (sheet). A fine impression printed on newsprint as published in Le Charivari. Good condition apart from a center fold. Signed in reverse in the stone. The comparisons become increasingly less flattering. The lithograph parodies on the overblown descriptions of amateur poets. $125.
Paul Gavarni was largely self-taught as an artist, having begun his career as a civil servant. In 1829 he submitted a watercolor of the village of Gavarnie in the Pyrenees to the Salon. It was accepted and mistakenly exhibited under the name 'Gavarni'; consently, he decided to adopt the name. He made illustrations for popular Parisian magazines such as Le Charivari, La Mode, La Caricature and Silhouette, providing them with fashion illustrations and satirical drawings. By the 1830s his prints of Parisian life increased his reputation. Among his most devoted admirers were the Goncourt brothers, who published a book on the artist in 1873, as well as Honoré de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert. Edgar Degas owned some two thousand Gavarni lithographs.
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