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Paul Gavarni

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Watercolor drawing of a standing man in a white Pierrot costume with a ruff collar, pompom buttons, and a grey plumed hat.

Pierrot

c. 1850-60

Lithograph of a standing moustached man and two seated women in bonnets at a theatre box railing.

The Comics' Theatre-Box

1834

Lithograph of two men at a theater balcony rail, one gesturing while the other leans in, with spectators raising opera glasse

Les-Parents-Terribles series: Here is the little Dancer

1852

Lithograph of an older man leaning on a desk beside a woman in a dark dress, with handwritten French verses below.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: Well, now, Achilles...

1852

Lithograph of an older man leaning over a table beside a younger man in an elegant interior with a fountain.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: It's Pretty, But...

1852

Lithograph of ragged figures by a stone wall, one kneeling over a small animal, another watching from above.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Misère-et-corde!

1852

Lithograph of a stout woman in a striped dress and lace cap gesturing, with two younger women behind her in a draped room.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: This one paints...

1852

Black and white lithograph of an older man whispering to a young woman, with a faint figure behind them.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: Yes, but you will see the captain...

1853

Lithograph of a bearded older man and a young woman with curled hair reading a book together, by Paul Gavarni, 1853.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: Will you read that chapter over again...

1853

Lithograph of a ragged man gesturing to seated boys on a field while a top-hatted man watches from the right.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: The old story, my lambkins

1852

Lithograph of a cloaked figure with a walking stick beside two sprawled men and a sign reading Fraternité.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Bretheren may be, but not cousins

1853

Les-Parents-Terribles series: But, grandfather, if Seraphim's Puncinello don't exist

1853

Lithograph of an old cloaked man with a cane facing a group of gesturing men in a street setting, by Paul Gavarni.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Ego! ego...ego - all equal (egaux-ego, buth pronounced alike)

1853

Lithograph of two seated men in dark coats at a table with a bottle, one looking up and one facing forward.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: By jove; the princess'-papboard calves

1853

Lithograph of a boy in checked trousers facing an older man in a dark coat who gestures upward in an interior.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: You will conjugate for me 25 times

1853

Lithograph of an older man seated on a bench with a young girl leaning beside him, sketched garden behind them.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: Don't you think, father...

1853

Lithograph of an older man and a younger man with hands on hips standing before bookshelves in an interior.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: I can't stand for that kind of mustaches

1853

Lithograph of an elderly man bowing his head beside a young woman with curly hair and glasses, leaning on a stone ledge.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: A lovely play, always the same

1853

Lithograph of two seated men in an interior, one with a cane to his mouth and the other laughing, by Gavarni.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: And now Sir, see what my little girl did

1853

Lithograph of a young woman and an older man in a dark coat, the man looking down at a small object in his hands.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: Come, come a ball's always the same

1853

Lithograph of a stern, seated man with tousled hair and a heavy coat, with faint figures sketched in the background.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: Jacques Maubourj et's son the viscount

1852-53

Lithograph of a smiling man in a wide-brimmed hat and dark jacket against a field background, by Paul Gavarni.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: I am Mamzelle Jolibiais' Papa

1852-53

Lithograph of a man in a dark coat and cravat beside a woman with curled hair, from Gavarni's Les Parents Terribles series.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: Mr. Charles said to me: What's she got?

1852-53

Lithograph of a ragged man with a walking stick beside a horned cow in a landscape, with French caption text below.

Les-Parents-Terribles series: A fine creature - and no corsets

1852-53

Drawing in red and black chalk of a sleeping young man resting his head on his arm, on grey paper.

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

1853

Pencil and crayon drawing of a bearded man gesturing beside a garden wall, with a reclining figure in the foreground.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: His Majesty the King of beasts

1852

Lithograph of a ragged bearded man with a stick and sickle, a figure in a hat behind him in a field.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Matthew has only this in his favor

1853

Grey lithograph of a seated old man with a walking stick, looking toward a gesturing group of men in a street scene.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Ego! ego! ego!...all equal

1853

Lithograph of a seated bearded old man talking with a standing young boy on a grassy outdoor slope.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Not taught anything?-yet stupid already

1853

Lithograph of men with bottles beside a wooden fence, one raising a bottle overhead and another peering over the fence.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Brains cracked-but bottles

1853

Lithograph of a disheveled man with round spectacles leaning on his arms in a hilly landscape, labeled Vireloque No 16.

and worn out)

1853

Lithograph of two men in a forest clearing, one standing and one seated on a log with a walking stick, drawn in hatched ink l

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: The new lord of the soil

1853