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Slide The Ladies of the Market  Gavarni  [[right margin]] BMA [[/right margin]]

Guillaume Suplice Chevalier, called Gavarni, a contemporary & complement to Daumier was born in 1804 & died in 1866. He too was a prolific printmaker, about 2,700 lithographs alone, & like Daumier he drew whole series of observations around a theme for the publications of the time, Les Beaux Arts, L'Artiste, Les Modes Parisiennes, Masques et Visages & his own publication Man of the World. [The practice was to print several special editions of proofs which were sold seperately & then to print the magazine edition from the original stones as well. These were still the days before photo-reproduction processes, but the practice continued well into the 20th century.]

The number of prints Gavarni made of the plebian side of Paris life were relatively few. Here he shows us the Ladies of the Paris Markets, a band of tyrants still notorious. [He made only two political cartoons about 1830.]

As you will notice Gavarni was more thoroughly representational than Daumier. He was a more subtle lithographer but a less magnificent artist. His observation was keen but local & more personal. Daumier was no less local [[strikethrough]] but [[strikethrough]] in subject but he made a more universal statement with it. [[strikethrough]] While [[/strikethrough]] With Gavarni we are apt to have to bring a greater familiarity with the background of the time.