Artworks · Paul Gavarni

Gulliver Awed by Three Giant Beggars in the Land of Brobdingnag

1862 · pen and brown ink with watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper, laid down

sheet: 23.2 x 16.4 cm (9 1/8 x 6 7/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Suburbs: Stock Raiser and Captain

1859 · watercolor (mixed with white gouache in places) over graphite, heightened with white gouache

Sheet: 29.4 x 21 cm (11 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.); Secondary Support: 38 x 29.4 cm (14 15/16 x 11 9/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

A Sailor Standing on the Shore

1859 · Pen and brown ink with wash and watercolor, heightened with white on cream wove paper, laid on card

12-13/16 x 8-7/8 in. (32.5 x 22.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Physionomies Parisiennes: Le Lundi

1857 · lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art

Physionomies Parisiennes: Au Marais. Ici, Azor! ici!

1857 · lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art

Masks and faces: I have been slandered

1857 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (paper collé)

Image: 20.1 × 16.3 cm (7 15/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Chine: 23 × 18.9 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 41.1 × 28.1 cm (16 3/16 × 11 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Par-ci, par-là: Phèdre au Théâtre-Francais...

1857 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.1 × 16.2 cm (7 15/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Chine: 23 × 18.8 cm (9 1/16 × 7 7/16 in.); Sheet: 35.3 × 27.8 cm (13 15/16 × 11 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces

1857 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.2 × 16 cm (8 × 6 5/16 in.); Chine: 22.9 × 18.9 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 38.9 × 20.5 cm (15 3/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces: We have never permitted...

1857 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.1 × 16.2 cm (7 15/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Chine: 23.1 × 18.9 cm (9 1/8 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 41.1 × 28.1 cm (16 3/16 × 11 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces: What, don't know Dachu's aunt?

1857 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image: 20 × 16 cm (7 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Chine: 23.6 × 18.8 cm (9 5/16 × 7 7/16 in.); Sheet: 41.1 × 28.1 cm (16 3/16 × 11 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces

1857 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.1 × 15.8 cm (7 15/16 × 6 1/4 in.); Chine: 23 × 18.8 cm (9 1/16 × 7 7/16 in.); Sheet: 39.8 × 28.8 cm (15 11/16 × 11 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces: Mme. Beauminet

1857 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.1 × 16 cm (7 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.); Chine: 22.8 × 18.3 cm (9 × 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 39.9 × 28.6 cm (15 3/4 × 11 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Physionomies Parisiennes: Petit Commerce. La Monnaie d'un Ballon.

1857 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image/chine: 29.2 × 19.1 cm (11 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.); Sheet: 41.1 × 28 cm (16 3/16 × 11 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces: Mr. Pipanthoud, vous ni affichez

1857 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.1 × 16.1 cm (7 15/16 × 6 3/8 in.); Chine: 23 × 18.9 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 41 × 28.1 cm (16 3/16 × 11 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces: Look at the announcements

1857 · Lithograph in black on cream China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image/chine: 19.4 × 16.3 cm (7 11/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 39.7 × 28.4 cm (15 11/16 × 11 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

My Daughter Has Danced

1857 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.2 × 16.3 cm (8 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 42.4 × 28.9 cm (16 3/4 × 11 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Par-ci, par-là: Le bourgeois est pincé...

1857 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.2 × 16.1 cm (8 × 6 3/8 in.); Sheet: 40.7 × 27 cm (16 1/16 × 10 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces: The first quarter of an hour

1857 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 21.2 × 16.1 cm (8 3/8 × 6 3/8 in.); Sheet: 39.6 × 28.5 cm (15 5/8 × 11 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Maska and faces: Keeping a Queen, you see

1857 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.2 × 16.2 cm (8 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 39.3 × 28.5 cm (15 1/2 × 11 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces: Brandy-a man plus brandy makes a savage, and brandy plus savages makes cattle

1857 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.1 × 16.2 cm (7 15/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 40.1 × 28.4 cm (15 13/16 × 11 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces: Achille you don't ask

1857 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.1 × 16.2 cm (7 15/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 43.4 × 30.3 cm (17 1/8 × 11 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces: Women afraid of a glass of wine...

1857 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.2 × 16.2 cm (8 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 42.3 × 30 cm (16 11/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces

1857 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.1 × 16.1 cm (7 15/16 × 6 3/8 in.); Sheet: 43.4 × 30.6 cm (17 1/8 × 12 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces: Oh, je aimez le vin de France trais bocoap

1857 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.1 × 16.2 cm (7 15/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 39.8 × 28.6 cm (15 11/16 × 11 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces

1857 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 21 × 16 cm (8 5/16 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 39.3 × 28.5 cm (15 1/2 × 11 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces: Have you done?

1857 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.2 × 16 cm (8 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 41.1 × 31.4 cm (16 3/16 × 12 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Masks and faces: Pretty woman? a bad lot

1857 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.5 × 16.7 cm (8 1/8 × 6 5/8 in.); Sheet: 39.9 × 28.1 cm (15 3/4 × 11 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Jean Baptiste Isabey

1854 · lithograph on chine collé

National Gallery of Art

The Magic Lantern

1854 · Lithograph in black on cream China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image/chine: 13.9 × 17 cm (5 1/2 × 6 3/4 in.); Sheet: 25.2 × 32.4 cm (9 15/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Alfred de Musset

1854 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 34.7 × 22 cm (13 11/16 × 8 11/16 in.); Sheet: 44.5 × 29.6 cm (17 9/16 × 11 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Frédéric Sauvage

1853 · lithograph on chine appliqué

National Gallery of Art

"Voyons! Mme Majeste..."

1853 · lithograph on chine collé

overall: 37.6 x 32 cm (14 13/16 x 12 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Alexander Gabriel Descamps

1853 · lithograph

National Gallery of Art

"We're wearing lots of flowers this spring, especially on hats" (Fashionable Magazine), plate IX from the suite The English At Home, from Masks and Faces

1853 · Lithographic stone

11 5/8 × 9 5/8 × 1 9/16 in. (29.5 × 24.5 × 4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Head of a Young Man (Study for L'Oiseau de passage)

1853 · graphite and red chalk with stylus heightened with white on off-white woven paper

Sheet: 23.6 x 16.6 cm (9 5/16 x 6 9/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

"On porte beaucoup de fleurs, ce printemps, surtout sur les chapeaux", from Les Anglais Chez Eux, Masques et Visages, plate 9, bound in Oeuvres Nouvelles, vol. III

1853 · Lithograph; second state of two (Armelhault & Bocher)

Sheet: 15 1/16 x 10 7/16 in. (38.2 x 26.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Les Invalides du Sentiment: Philibert le mauvais sujet

1853 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 21.8 × 18.6 cm (8 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 36.5 × 26.8 cm (14 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les maris me font toujours rire: Et le jeune homme...

1853 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 22 × 18.1 cm (8 11/16 × 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 36.5 × 26.8 cm (14 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les maris me font toujours rire: Prends garde, chéri..

1853 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 21.9 × 18.6 cm (8 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 36.5 × 26.8 cm (14 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les maris me font toujours rire: M'ame Jolibiais est grosse...

1853 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 21.8 × 18.6 cm (8 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 36.5 × 26.8 cm (14 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les maris me font toujours rire: Comme tu ments mal, mon chéri

1853 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 21.8 × 18.5 cm (8 5/8 × 7 5/16 in.); Sheet: 36.5 × 26.8 cm (14 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Say-So, Papa!, from Masques et Visages

1853 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 22 × 18.5 cm (8 11/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Sheet: 36.4 × 26.8 cm (14 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les maris me font toujours rire: Item, pour avoir montré, au bal de la Préfecture...

1853 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 21.8 × 18.6 cm (8 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 36.5 × 26.8 cm (14 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les maris me font toujours rire: Je suis le mari de M'ame Jolibiais

1853 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 21.9 × 18.6 cm (8 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 36.5 × 26.8 cm (14 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les Invalides du Sentiment: Elle a joué Zaïre

1853 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 21.7 × 18.5 cm (8 9/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Sheet: 36.5 × 26.7 cm (14 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les Invalides du Sentiment: Raphael

1853 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 21.9 × 18.8 cm (8 5/8 × 7 7/16 in.); Sheet: 36.4 × 26.8 cm (14 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les Invalides du Sentiment: Toujours étonnant!

1853 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 21.7 × 18.5 cm (8 9/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Sheet: 36.4 × 26.8 cm (14 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les Invalides du Sentiment: - "On m'a pourtant, ma chère, Surnommé le trompeur!"

1853 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 21.8 × 18.5 cm (8 5/8 × 7 5/16 in.); Sheet: 36.4 × 26.8 cm (14 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago