- Also known as
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Paul Gavarni
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primary name: Gavarni, Paul
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other name: Chevalier, Hippolyte Guillaume Sulpice
- Details
- individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; French; Male
- Life dates
- 1804-1866
- Biography
- Lithographer, draughtsman on wood, engraver and caricaturist, known as Paul Gavarni. Studied mechanical drawing at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers in Paris in 1818. In 1833 he founded the 'Journal des Gens du Monde', which failed and led him to prison because he could not pay his creditors. After prison, Gavarni made some drawings for wood-engravings for book illustrations and started to draw theatrical costumes. In 1837 he worked for Philipon's 'Le Charivari' and created the feminine counterpart of Daumier's 'Robert Macaire'. This led him to focus on the observation of feminine types of the Parisian society (the series 'Les Lorettes' was very successful). In 1847 he visited England.
The BM has a very large and good collection of his work, which is not yet on the database.
- Bibliography
- J. Armelhault and Emmanuel Bocher, 'L'oeuvre de Gavarni: lithographies originales et essais d'eaux-fortes et de procédés nouveaux. catalogue raisonné', Paris, 1873 (catalogue of 2714 lithographs, arranged by subject and series)
P.A.Lemoisne, 'Gavarni peintre et lithographe', 2 vols 1924-8 (basic biographical)
Nancy Olson, 'Gavarni: The Carnival Lithographs', exhibition catalogue, New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 1979
Maria da Ajuda Jaunin, 'Oeuvre gravé de Gavarni. Pièces conservées au Département des estampes: récolement du 28 novembre 1995', Paris, 1995
Beatrice Farwell, 'The Charged Image: French Lithographic Caricature 1816-1848', exhibition catalogue, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, 1989, pp.83-94
