Medal Paul Gavarni Artist of Drawing Knight Engraver Emile Rousseau

Description: ____________277-tir61Bronze medal from the Paris Mint (cornucopia hallmark from 1880).Struck in 1973.Traces of handling and oxidation.Artist / Grasculptor / sculptor : Emile Rousseau.Dimension : 81 mm .Weight : 234 g.Metal : bronze .Mark on the edge : Cornucopia + bronze + 1973.Fast and careful shipping.The support is not for sale.Stand is not for sale. _ Gavarni, known as Paul Gavarni, pseudonym of Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier, born in Paris on January 13, 18041, and died in the same city on November 24, 1866, is a French designer, watercolorist and lithographer. Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier was the son of a farmer named Chevalier, who had come to Paris, and of Monique Thiémet, sister of the grimacing artist, ventriloquist and caricaturist Guillaume Thiémet (?-?), famous during the time of the Directory and under the First Empire for his depictions, among other things, of greedy monks3.It was following his stays in the Pyrenees, and in particular in Gavarnie, that he chose his pseudonym Gavarni. This pseudonym is commonly, but wrongly, associated with the first name Paul. Neither the Goncourts, who knew this artist very well and published his biography4, nor the authors of the catalogue of his engraved work5 mention this first name: the incorrect form seems to appear in artists' dictionaries at the beginning of the 20th century.Noticed by the abbot of La Mésangère, who published several of his works in the Journal des dames et des modes6, then by Émile de Girardin, he collaborated with Fashion. His drawings were also published in other newspapers such as L'Artiste and L'Illustration - as well as in its Spanish equivalent La Ilustración7 - notably with his series of pipe smokers. Around 1835, he became a regular contributor to Charivari, a satirical daily newspaper of the republican opposition8. His full-page lithographs are the best known there with those of Honoré Daumier and are, rightly, considered to be originals by the artist. He died a few months after the death of his youngest son Jean, aged 10.In the 1840s, he participated in the illustration of Léon Curmer's work, The French Painted by Themselves9. He also participated with Grandville in the publications of Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Le Diable à Paris, collective works which brought together stories and articles by Balzac, George Sand, Charles Nodier. He is also the author of a unique collection of literary texts, Les Douze mois, published in 186910.He was named knight of the Legion of Honor in 1852.A monument was erected in his memory on Place Saint-Georges in Paris (Gavarni lived in the area from 1837 to 1846), the base of which is decorated with a bas-relief illustrating the Paris Carnival. It includes “a tank top”.His workHis lithographic series (Les Enfants terribles, Fourberies de femmes) and his drawings make him a mocking, sometimes bitter, observer of Parisian society under Louis-Philippe and the Second Empire. In this he joins the Goncourts, who admired him, and with whom he was very close.Gavarni had made a specialty of illustrating the Paris Carnival, to the point that, paGavarni, known as Paul Gavarni, pseudonym of Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier, born in Paris on January 13, 18041, and died in the same city on November 24, 1866, is a French designer, watercolorist and lithographer. Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier was the son of a farmer named Chevalier, who had come to Paris, and of Monique Thiémet, sister of the grimacing artist, ventriloquist and caricaturist Guillaume Thiémet (?-?), famous during the time of the Directory and under the First Empire for his depictions, among other things, of greedy monks3. Noticed by the abbot of La Mésangère, who published several of his works in the Journal des dames et des modes6, then by Émile de Girardin, he collaborated with Fashion. His drawings were also published in other newspapers such as L'Artiste and L'Illustration

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