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Lithograph by Gavarni
from Le Charivari - LES LORETTES

Antique Lithographs printed on newsprint with text on reverse as published in Le Charivari. These prints come from the series entitled "Les Lorettes" published around 1840. (See below for more about Les Lorettes - "The Tarts" )

Plate # 15 - Naughty Child

About Paul Gavarni

Gavarni was the pseudonym of Paul Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (1804–66) a prolific French caricaturist and lithographer. One of the most popular artists of the 19th Century, Gavarni first became known for his amusing fashion drawings, which appeared in La Mode.

Gavarni led the classic bohemian lifestyle that he so often depicted in his work, drinking, dancing and socializing into the Paris night. He developed close friendships with many other leading artists and writers of his time including Honoré Balzac, Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray. His works were collected by Queen Victoria, as well as by Edgar Degas and Vincent Van Gogh and influenced the work of the the American artist James McNeil Whistler. At one time he was known as the "most elegant man in France."

Gavarni's many-year collaboration with the popular magazine Le Charivari - to which Daumier and other caricaturists of the day also contributed - represented the pinnacle of his career. Working continuously from 1838 to 1844 he produced over 900 prints illustrating Parisian life with great wit, charm and satire.

But Gavarni also had a serious side. In 1847 he spent a year in London, turning his back on London high society which courted him, in favor of the impoverished milieus around Whitechapel whose residents he depicted in some of his best work.

 

Les Lorettes

The French term lorette describes a kind of respectable kept woman. The area south of Pigalle, near Notre Dame de Lorette, where Gavarni lived, was home to many such women who had been installed in apartments by wealthy gentlemen. "Les Lorettes" - one of the artists's most famous series - captures humerous vignettes from these women's lives.

 

Text on this Print Reads

 

- t'as bien tort. va ma fille, de laisser la petite te parler comme ca!

- Dis. grand mer, tu nous embetes

 

"- You are wrong, my girl, to let your little one talk to you like that.

- Say 'grand mother, you are bugging us!"

 

Dimensions: 10 X 14 inches

 

Condition:

Printed on newsprint with text on reverse as published in Le Charivari circa 1844. Newsprint on back is visible through the light weight paper. Some spotting at edges and light creasing.

 

Lithograph signed in reverse in the stone.

 

Price: $40

 

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