Gavarni

06246 — Paris: Chez Aubert 1840. Sixty Superb Hand Colored Lithographs from three of Gavarni's Most Celebrated Series<br /> <br /> GAVARNI Paul pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier. Les Étudiants de Paris & Le Carnaval à Paris & Les Débardeurs. Paris: Chez Aubert 1840-1842.<br /> <br /> Folio 13 × 9 in.; 330 × 250 mm. An exceptional compilation of sixty hand-colored lithographs each heightened with gum arabic all by Paul Gavarni. A few plates with minor foxing to blank margins.<br /> <br /> Contemporary quarter black diced calf over patterned black paper-covered boards extremities a little rubbed.<br /> <br /> A striking and well-assembled album - sixty vivid gum-arabic-heightened lithographs by Gavarni drawn from three of his most celebrated series. Together they offer a lively social commentary and a cohesive survey of the artist's sharp eye for character and nuance realized in brilliantly hand-colored lithographs of great visual appeal and presence.<br /> <br /> Contents: <br /> <br /> Les Étudiants de Paris 1839-40: 16 plates of 60 - nos. 2 3 4 6 7 9 10 15 16 18 20 21 22 25 stained at top blank fore-margin just touching image 30 31.<br /> <br /> Le Carnaval à Paris 1841-42: 16 plates of 30 - nos. 1 2 4 5 7 8 11 12 13 14 17 19 20 22 23 27.<br /> <br /> Les Débardeurs 1840-42: 28 plates of 66 - nos. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 18 19 20 22 27 33 34 43 45 47 slightly worn at fore-margin 53 54 55 56 slightly worn at fore-margin 63.<br /> <br /> <br /> Les Étudiants de Paris captures the comedic sometimes absurd university life of Paris's law and medical students-a defining early Gavarni series.<br /> <br /> Le Carnaval à Paris explores the flamboyant masked festivities of Parisian carnival blending costume satire and street theater-these sixteen plates suggest sequential extraction from the original issue.<br /> <br /> Les Débardeurs offers spirited depictions of carnival dock-working women-humorous lively and deeply grounded in Gavarni's keen observational style.<br /> <br /> <br /> Armelhault & Bocher: "Les Étudiants de Paris" nos. 626-657; "Le Carnaval à Paris" nos. 729-755; "Les Débardeurs" nos. 800-866. Colas: 1292 Étudiants 1295 Carnaval 1298 Débardeurs; Lipperheide: Lc 2312 Étudiants Lc 2315 Carnaval Lc 2317 Débardeurs. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1840 unknown