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Artist

Paul Gavarni

Nationality

French

Artist Dates

1804-1866

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Medium

Lithograph

Height

14"

Width

9"

Collection/Provenance

Art & Design Study Collection

Status

Stored: FF_008_F

Location

UND Art Collections Repository

Artist Bio

A contemporary of Honoré Daumier, Paul Gavarni was a painter and prolific lithographer. The name Gavarni was a pseudonym that resulted from a mistake being made about his real name, Hippolyte Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier, during his early career. Beginning to make lithographs in 1824, Gavarni’s prints about fashion and contemporary life gained him recognition in the 1830s.

Additional Information

Series: Fourberies de femmes en matière de sentiment

Published in Le Charivari

Original Text:

-C'est égal, je trouve que la Parrain de la petite vient trop chez nous...

-Ces noisette-la ne sont guère bonnes!

-Et ca fait jaser... tu sais bien que ce n'est pas pour moi que je dis ca: tu me connais...

-O tu ferais de ce que tu voudras, mais tu passeras pour un homme sans caractère... en vla encore une creuse.

Translation:

-Never mind, I find that the godfather of the little one comes too much to us ...

-These hazelnuts are hardly good!

-And it makes people talk ... you know that it's not for me that I say that: you know me ...

-O you will do what you want, but you will pass for a man without character ...

Condition

Fair

Condition Notes

Foxing throughout

Rights

Images are provided for educational purposes only and may not be reproduced for commercial use. Images may be protected by artist copyright. A credit line is required to be used for any public non-commercial educational purpose. The credit line must include, “Image courtesy of the University of North Dakota.”

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