- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- M25331.1-72
- People
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Paul Gavarni, French (Paris 1804 - 1866 Paris)
Published by Calmann Lévy
- Title
- Masques et Visages [Masks and Faces]
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Masques et Visages
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- book
- Date
- 19th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/143977
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Bound book; lithograph and letterpress
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- 38 x 28 cm (14 15/16 x 11 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: title page, black printer's ink, letterpress: GAVARNI / MASQUES ET VISAGES / NOTICE / PAR / C.-A. SAINTE-BEUVE / PARIS / CALMANN LÉVY, LIBRAIRE-ÉDITEUR / 3, RUE AUBER ET 15, BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS / A LA LIBRAIRE NOUVELLE
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Pearl K. and Daniel Bell
- Accession Year
- 2002
- Object Number
- M25331.1-72
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.
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M25331.67
Paul Gavarni
Here is a lot of money for Your Honor, Milord. Here is a lot of honor for your money, Sire., p. 141
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M25331.68
Paul Gavarni
The heir of the boat, p. 143
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M25331.72
Paul Gavarni
Who is more pitiable in the world than a man united with ... a dockman? It's a woman at the mercy of Pierrot.
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M25331.65
Paul Gavarni
Gin, p. 137
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M25331.66
Paul Gavarni
Misery and her children, p. 137
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M25331.71
Paul Gavarni
The Sleep of Innocence, p. 149
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M25331.69
Paul Gavarni
How is Madame? Thank you and yours?, p. 145
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M25331.70
Paul Gavarni
Would it be an indiscretion to ask you gentlemen your advise on the temperament of the new minister?, p. 147
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M25331.47
Paul Gavarni
The more I see you, the more I love him., p. 101
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M25331.48
Paul Gavarni
I have Charity, M. le Marquis; have Faith, p. 105
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M25331.49
Paul Gavarni
My dear: men, what a farce! It's always the same story: a woman has only herself. Crazy! Crazy!, p. 105
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M25331.50
Paul Gavarni
I hear a carriage. It's M. Chose [Thing] who comes to see his treasure. You mean his treasure-keeper, my dear., p. 107
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M25331.10
Paul Gavarni
I am like that character of Henri Monnier who doesn't like spinach. I don't like the piano, and I am happy about that because if I did like the piano, my wife would play the hunting-horn., p. 27
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M25331.15
Paul Gavarni
Dachu, if people say that your wife commits indiscretions, they say that like they say any other thing. But if you, head of the community, are in doubt: it's on you to make yourself scarce., p. 37
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M25331.16
Paul Gavarni
And ... your wife? - Always with the other., p. 39
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M25331.22
Paul Gavarni
The Madame of the tent puts on her stockings! More than that, the legs!, p. 51
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M25331.27
Paul Gavarni
And if Mlle. would condescend to accept the homage and supplication of a gentleman... -Are you finished yet?!, p. 61
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M25331.28
Paul Gavarni
Enough! When will you give me a little affection for tonight? -How Trite!, p. 63
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M25331.29
Paul Gavarni
The Ex-Goddess of Liberty, p. 65
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M25331.30
Paul Gavarni
As for me, at least I don't say that I don't like proof spirits., p. 67
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M25331.51
Paul Gavarni
The Arthur, p. 109
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M25331.52
Paul Gavarni
Ah! Believe if you would that the man who made me a dreamer could pride himself on being a scoundrel., p. 111
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M25331.53
Paul Gavarni
Madame is not in! Good Lord! ... do you have 100 sous?, p. 113
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M25331.54
Paul Gavarni
Dear God! As I was born honest! Never a man who wouldn't suit me! ... who would be nothing to me!, p. 115
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M25331.57
Paul Gavarni
I have to say that those little bootlettes there would have kept company with no small number of boots!, p. 121
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M25331.58
Paul Gavarni
Thursday, you dined at Vachette's, with a grand Monsieur ... That's a joke! Yes, he's the touching Némorin [Forest?] of which I am the Estelle [deer?], for a quarter of an hour. He has only one eye, that man: it's equal, he displeases me!, p. 123
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M25331.59
Paul Gavarni
Are you familiar with this cashemere? My goodness! ... The uncultured returns to the Pandour [soldier]., p. 125
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M25331.60
Paul Gavarni
In your place I would reproach him with all my injustices ... and that would be the end!, p. 127
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M25331.63
Paul Gavarni
Well, my dear, at the next carnival, I gave a son to him, to that animal. And so? And so he didn't want it!, p. 133
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M25331.64
Paul Gavarni
The dinner of a "protector of animals": a side of beef, half of a Scottish partridge, a pint of shrimp, etc., p. 135
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M25331.9
Paul Gavarni
The apartment is a gem! ... and the building, Sir! ... no children, no dogs, no pianos!
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M25331.21
Paul Gavarni
The husband of Mademoiselle Cicada., p. 49
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M25331.31
Paul Gavarni
Not a Coquette, p. 69
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M25331.32
Paul Gavarni
Get it here for a sou! ... Just off the presses! ... All the details of a young person! ... from Gros-Caillou, who! ... hurled himself! ... in front of the astonished fifth regiment of astonished Hussars! ... in the waves of the Seine! ... in plain daylight! ... to save those! ... of the author! ... of! ... theirs!, p. 71
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M25331.33
Paul Gavarni
Men? What a thing to propose!, p. 73
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M25331.34
Paul Gavarni
Go on! Go to the market, Mother ... and don't cheat me!, p.75
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M25331.35
Paul Gavarni
Well! If I had as many homes to do ... as I've undone!, p. 77
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M25331.43
Paul Gavarni
My little house, my mother ate it. My brother Zidor gambled away my hair, my shawls, my rings ... and all. And my late father drank the rest., p. 93
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M25331.61
Paul Gavarni
My dear, one is never as well scratched as by oneself., p. 129
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M25331.62
Paul Gavarni
"Platonic love" is just an affectation, p. 131
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M25331.20
Paul Gavarni
"Look, chaste author of my words, will you write me a part...?" "Extraordinary!" "What costume?" "Something indecent is indispensable., p. 47."
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M25331.25
Paul Gavarni
Of the unhappy people like this, one sees them with only one eye ... and not out of an attic window!, p. 57.
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M25331.26
Paul Gavarni
Strong in Dominoes, p. 59
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M25331.37
Paul Gavarni
I tell of my neighbors' surprise / My fortune in different times / And I am still finding its debris / In sweeping the five floors, p. 81
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M25331.38
Paul Gavarni
I tell the good fortune, since I no longer know what it is, p. 83
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M25331.41
Paul Gavarni
No, M. Henri. I do not doubt the delicacy of your feelings, nor does my daughter; but look! I cannot make soup with that!, p.89
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M25331.42
Paul Gavarni
My respects to you, Mme. Widow-of-everyone!, p. 91
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M25331.45
Paul Gavarni
Don't love me anymore?! ... Why Pamela, that would be a luxury that your methods do not permit you., p. 97
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M25331.46
Paul Gavarni
The temptation of a Saint Antoinette, p. 99
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M25331.55
Paul Gavarni
Ah, that! Come on, M. le baron, what the devil would you wish that one did with your confidences, if not abuse them?, p. 117
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M25331.56
Paul Gavarni
Still, at our house, I guarded the geese! And now the geese are guarding you., p. 119
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M25331.6
Paul Gavarni
Do you know, Partagé, which village in France has the most knock-kneed clockmakers? -No. Where's that? -Well, it's Pau! -Why? -No one has ever been able to figure it out!, p. 19
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M25331.17
Paul Gavarni
... Yes my dear [meat (lit.)] Auguste. I am decidedly arrested in the heart so much that my rascal of a director will have half left it ..., p. 41.
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M25331.18
Paul Gavarni
... So then, if you would permit me, I will have the honor of sending my carriage for you at eleven o'clock. -That would keep me in boots [?], p. 43
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M25331.23
Paul Gavarni
Without even counting the times there wasn't a thing at our house to put in the oven ... and Monsieur wears an overcoat of doubly thick cloth. Good lord! An overcoat of doubly thick cloth!, p. 53.
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M25331.24
Paul Gavarni
Carrots! How many are there, of the Bourgeois and the Crested Birds that live only on them?, p. 55.
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M25331.36
Paul Gavarni
At the present, I sell pleasure to the ladies., p. 79
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M25331.39
Paul Gavarni
Today is the feast of Saint Magdalen. Long ago that was my feast day!, p. 85
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M25331.40
Paul Gavarni
Sigh! And I really liked lobster!, p. 87
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M25331.44
Paul Gavarni
Do you know that charming person? Perfectly: she is the wife of two of my friends., p. 95
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M25331.11
Paul Gavarni
Mademoiselle sings; we will have water.
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M25331.12
Paul Gavarni
Louison, what is yours is mine ... and I'm thirsty!
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M25331.13
Paul Gavarni
I'm such a little thing! I'm really a nothing! I'm a street urchin! ... But I'm not a Grocer., p. 33
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M25331.14
Paul Gavarni
Don't make a mistake, young man! The taffeta goes to my house. -And the velvet for Magdalen.
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M25331.19
Paul Gavarni
...and I will presently be hurled in a heap, from the summit of the North Tower! ... All this, Sirs, refers to my virtue., p. 45.
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M25331.7
Paul Gavarni
Hush! A stockholder who just touched his dividend!, p. 21
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M25331.8
Paul Gavarni
Lit .. tle flower ... of the fields / Always ... always ... hidden, p. 23
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M25331.3
Paul Gavarni
How do you do? -Thank you! and you? -I thank you. Don't take your hat off! -As you see; and ... are you well?..., p. 13
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M25331.4
Paul Gavarni
As for me, if I have nothing in the bank, that's the fault of events, p. 15
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M25331.1
Paul Gavarni
Come on! Madame Highness, just between us does Monsieur respect himself so much that he wouldn't give Madame a blow? p. 9
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M25331.2
Paul Gavarni
Some say that your Monsieur, Monsieur Polyte, wants, despite the respect he owes you, to eat his estate in [truffes] truffles ... You mean in [turf] the racetrack, old man Pigaud., p. 11
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M25331.5
Paul Gavarni
Toinon! I'm not worth anything when one harasses me: I know my mind! What a damned knowledge you have there!, p. 17
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This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Identification and Creation
-
- Object Number
- M25331.1-72
- People
-
Paul Gavarni, French (Paris 1804 - 1866 Paris)
Published by Calmann Lévy
- Title
- Masques et Visages [Masks and Faces]
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Masques et Visages
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- book
- Date
- 19th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/143977
- Physical Descriptions
-
- Medium
- Bound book; lithograph and letterpress
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- 38 x 28 cm (14 15/16 x 11 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- inscription: title page, black printer's ink, letterpress: GAVARNI / MASQUES ET VISAGES / NOTICE / PAR / C.-A. SAINTE-BEUVE / PARIS / CALMANN LÉVY, LIBRAIRE-ÉDITEUR / 3, RUE AUBER ET 15, BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS / A LA LIBRAIRE NOUVELLE
- Acquisition and Rights
-
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Pearl K. and Daniel Bell
- Accession Year
- 2002
- Object Number
- M25331.1-72
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.
- Related Works
-
This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu