From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Masques et Visages [Masks and Faces]

Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

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
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Related Works

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Paul Gavarni

Here is a lot of money for Your Honor, Milord. Here is a lot of honor for your money, Sire., p. 141

Paul Gavarni

The heir of the boat, p. 143

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.

Paul Gavarni

Gin, p. 137

Paul Gavarni

Misery and her children, p. 137

Paul Gavarni

The Sleep of Innocence, p. 149

Paul Gavarni

How is Madame? Thank you and yours?, p. 145

Paul Gavarni

Would it be an indiscretion to ask you gentlemen your advise on the temperament of the new minister?, p. 147

Paul Gavarni

The more I see you, the more I love him., p. 101

Paul Gavarni

I have Charity, M. le Marquis; have Faith, p. 105

Paul Gavarni

My dear: men, what a farce! It's always the same story: a woman has only herself. Crazy! Crazy!, p. 105

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

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

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

Paul Gavarni

And ... your wife? - Always with the other., p. 39

Paul Gavarni

The Madame of the tent puts on her stockings! More than that, the legs!, p. 51

Paul Gavarni

And if Mlle. would condescend to accept the homage and supplication of a gentleman... -Are you finished yet?!, p. 61

Paul Gavarni

Enough! When will you give me a little affection for tonight? -How Trite!, p. 63

Paul Gavarni

The Ex-Goddess of Liberty, p. 65

Paul Gavarni

As for me, at least I don't say that I don't like proof spirits., p. 67

Paul Gavarni

The Arthur, p. 109

Paul Gavarni

Ah! Believe if you would that the man who made me a dreamer could pride himself on being a scoundrel., p. 111

Paul Gavarni

Madame is not in! Good Lord! ... do you have 100 sous?, p. 113

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

Paul Gavarni

I have to say that those little bootlettes there would have kept company with no small number of boots!, p. 121

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

Paul Gavarni

Are you familiar with this cashemere? My goodness! ... The uncultured returns to the Pandour [soldier]., p. 125

Paul Gavarni

In your place I would reproach him with all my injustices ... and that would be the end!, p. 127

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

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

Paul Gavarni

The apartment is a gem! ... and the building, Sir! ... no children, no dogs, no pianos!

Paul Gavarni

The husband of Mademoiselle Cicada., p. 49

Paul Gavarni

Not a Coquette, p. 69

Paul Gavarni

Paul Gavarni

Men? What a thing to propose!, p. 73

Paul Gavarni

Go on! Go to the market, Mother ... and don't cheat me!, p.75

Paul Gavarni

Well! If I had as many homes to do ... as I've undone!, p. 77

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

Paul Gavarni

My dear, one is never as well scratched as by oneself., p. 129

Paul Gavarni

"Platonic love" is just an affectation, p. 131

Paul Gavarni