Paul Gavarni (Hippolyte Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier)

Vous etes une Veuve!, D'Apres Nature (You are a Widow!, According to Nature)

Paul Gavarni's original lithograph, "Vous etes une Veuve! Vous etes une Veuve! Mais! la Justice! ... (You are a Widow! Your are a Widow! But! Justice!) hails from his suite entitled, "D'Apres Nature" (According to Nature), published by Morizot in Paris in 1858. "Vous etes une Veuve!" is regarded as one of his best works of art in the field of law and lawyers. The image deals with an apparent prosecution of a woman accused of poisoning her husband. Ironically, because she is now a widow she is asking for the court's pity and leniency. Roughly translated, our attorney responds, "You are a widow! You are a widow! But! Justice! Has it not seen at its feet so many times, widowhood! ... still all sprinkled! with arsenic? You are orphans! But! all the parricides! are they not also orphans?"

This is a 2nd state impression bearing the suite title, "D'Apres Nature" in the upper margin. As well as the artist's name, "Par Gavarni" within the lower borders, the full title, "Vous etes une Veuve! Vous etes une Veuve! Mais! la Justice! ne l'a-t-elle pas vu maintes fois a ses pieds, le veuvage! ... encore tout ... saupoudre! d'arseme? Vous etes des orphelins! Mais! tous les parricides! ne sont-ils pas aussi des orphelins?" and the printer's details, "Lemercier, Paris" in the lower margin as published in 1858. The scene depicts a lawyer in court wearing the black legal robe, termed as the 'gown'. He is facing right and is speaking to the audience. HIs left hand is raised, the other is on the papers beside his black cap in front of him. This is a fine, original example of the lithographic art created by the 19th century French artist, Paul Gavarni, also known as Hippolyte Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier. The Beaux-arts de Paris, l'ecole nationale superieure includes an impression of "Vous etes une Veuve! ..." in its permanent collection, Inventory Number, Est 11209.

Original Lithograph by The French artist, Paul Gavarni, also known as 'Hippolyte Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier'.

Vous etes une Veuve Vous etes une Veuve Mais la Justice You are a Widow but Justice Original Lithograph by The French artist Paul Gavarni from D'Apres Nature According to Nature

Vous etes une Veuve! Vous etes une Veuve! Mais! la Justice! ne l'a-t-elle pas vu maintes fois a ses pieds, le veuvage! ... encore tout ... saupoudre! d'arseme? Vous etes des orphelins! Mais! tous les parricides! ne sont-ils pas aussi des orphelins? (You are a Widow! You are a Widow! But! Justice! Was she not often seen at his feet, widowhood! ... still ... all sprinkles! with arsenic? You are orphans! but! all parricides! aren't they not also orphans?)

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Paul Gavarni, 'Hippolyte Guillaume Suplice Chavalier' (Paris, 1804 - Auteuil, 1866)
#	Image	French Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Source	-
1.-		Ciel! Anatole! (Good Heavens! Anatole!) by Paul Gavarni	Original Lithograph	1846	Oeuvres Nouvelles de Gavarni, Carnaval, Le Charivari, Paris, Gavarni Catalogue Raisonne: #1039 - XVI (16)
2.-		Declasses Mais je fus epiciere et sentis la Chandelle (Decline in Social Distinction, But I was a grocer & felt the candle light) by Paul Gavarni	Original Lithograph	1858	Masques et Visages, Physionomies Parisiennes, Paulin et Le Chevalier, Paris, Gavarni Catalogue Raisonne: #1898 No XLIX (49)
3.-		Gulnare, Mlle. Melanie Waldor (Portrait of Mlle. Melanie Waldor as one of the leading characters, 'Gulnare' in the ballet entitled "Le Corsaire" by Paul Gavarni	Original Lithograph	1843	Les Beaux-Arts, Paris (1er Volume), Leon Curmer, Paris, Gavarni Catalogue Raisonne: Portraits, #72	Sold
4.-		La biche au Bois (The Doe in the Woods) by Paul Gavarni	Original Lithograph	1853	Masques et Visages, Par-Ci, Par-La, Paulin et Le Chevalier, Paris, Gavarni Catalogue Raisonne: #1840 No XLI (41)	Sold
5.-		La Douleur d'une Mere (The Suffering of a Mother) by Paul Gavarni	Original Lithograph	1844	Revue et Gazette Musicale, Physionomies Des Chanteurs, Gavarni Catalogue Raisonne: #1541 - No II (2)
6.-		Les Femmes Artistes, Madame E. de B. (Women Artists, Mrs. E. de B., wife of Charles Edouard de Beaumont) by Paul Gavarni	Original Lithograph	1856	L'Artiste, (Sixieme Serie, Tome Deuxieme), Gavarni Catalogue Raisonne: Portraits, #210
7.-		Mademoiselle! v'la ce que c'est qu'un homme! Connu! (Miss! what is it in a man! Familiarity!) by Paul Gavarni	Original Lithograph	1853	Masques et Visages, La Foire Aux Amours, Gavarni Catalogue Raisonne: #1299 No VIII (8)	Sold
8.-		On n'a Jamais Compris son Coeur! (One can never Understand One's Heart!) by Paul Gavarni	Original Lithograph	1844	Revue et Gazette Musicale, Physionomies Des Chanteurs, Gavarni Catalogue Raisonne: #1540 - No I (1)
9.-		Petite Servante, Deviendra Maitresse (Little Servant, Become Mistress) by Paul Gavarni	Original Lithograph	1857	Masques et Visages, Physionomies Parisiennes, Paulin et Le Chevalier, Paris, Catalogue Raisonne: #1874 No XXV (25)
10.-	-	Voila cette petite danseuse dont je l'ai parle, mon oncle; elle est un peu ..., Bossue, Charmant!, Et mal jambee (There is this little dancer I was referring to, my uncle; she is a little, hunchbacked, charming, bad legs) by Paul Gavarni	Original Lithograph	1853	Masques et Visages, Les Parents Terribles, Gavarni Catalogue Raisonne: #1420 - No I (1)	Sold
11.-		Vous etes une Veuve! Vous etes une Veuve! Mais! la Justice! ... (You are a Widow! You are a Widow! But! Justice!) by Paul Gavarni	Original Lithograph	1858	D' Apres Nature, Morizot, Libraire-Editeur, Catalogue Raisonne: #1626, No XXXVIII (38)

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Title:	Vous etes une Veuve! Vous etes une Veuve! Mais! la Justice! ne l'a-t-elle pas vu maintes fois a ses pieds, le veuvage! ... encore tout ... saupoudre! d'arseme? Vous etes des orphelins! Mais! tous les parricides! ne sont-ils pas aussi des orphelins? (You are a Widow! You are a Widow! But! Justice! Was she not often seen at his feet, widowhood! ... still ... all sprinkles! with arsenic? You are orphans! but! all parricides! aren't they not also orphans?)
Artist:	Gavarni, 'Hippolyte Guillaume Suplice Chavalier', 'Paul Gavarni' (Paris, 1804 - Auteuil, 1866)
Date:	1858
Medium:	Original Lithograph
Publisher:	Morizot, Libraire-Editeur, 3 Rue Pavee-Saint Andre, Paris
Printer:	Lemercier, Paris
Source:	D'Apres Nature
Note:	Hippolyte Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier -- much better known to the world as 'Paul Gavarni' -- is second only to Daumier as the greatest social commentator and satirical artist of nineteenth century France. Beginning his career as an engineer's assistant he began to exhibit signs of his future genius in the late 1820's as a fashion designer and illustrator. Paul Gavarni's talent for caricature and satirical art, however, led him to the editorship of Les Gens du Monde in 1835. He afterwards took charge of the influential periodical, Charivari, and was then forced to live and work in England in the late 1840's in order to avoid political persecution. One of the most clever caricaturists of any time, Paul Gavarni's draughtsmanship was without equal. With the greatest economy of line he captured the follies and foibles of his age.
	This original lithograph is a superb example of Paul Gavarni's mature style. During the 1850's he was commissioned by the Paris Journal to create satirical lithographs on a daily basis. This gave birth to his greatest Suites, such as, D'Apres Nature "D'Apres Nature" (According to Nature) and Masques et Visages (Masks and Faces). Vous etes une Veuve! (You are a Widow!) hails from D'Apres Nature which many scholars hold in high esteem. In this original lithograph, we are treated to an entire spectrum of both telling and comic scenes and situations when Paul Gavarni's ability was at its peak. Using brilliant contrasts of blacks, greys and whites, the lithographs from this set have long been considered to be among France's finest examples of satirical art.
	This original lithograph entitled, "Vous etes une Veuve!" (You are a Widow!) was the 38th lithograph from the Suite Gavarni produced under the title of "D'Apres Nature" (According to Nature). "Vous etes une Veuve! ..." is regarded as one of his best works of art in the field of law and lawyers. The subject deals with an apparent prosecution of a woman accused of poisoning her husband. Ironically, because she is now a widow she is asking for the court's pity and leniency. Most of Paul Gavarni's great art was created in Suite form, such is the case with "D'Apres Nature". According to Armelhault et Bocher, "Catalogue Raisonne" and the 1858 folio entitled, "D'Apres Nature", this set consisted of forty original lithographs, both created and designed by Gavarni under the title: "D'apres nature", with texte by MM. Jules Janin, Paul de Saint-Victor, Edmond Texier, & the brothers, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Morizot, Libraire-Editeur, 3 Rue Pavee-Saint Andre, Paris, 1858. The set also included a frontispiece design by Jules Janin. Each lithograph is surrounded by a border. The top border has been broken to incorporate the title of this suite, "D'Apres Nature" in the upper margin. The artist's name, "Par Gavarni" appears between the first and second border under the image, the sequence number, "38", the title, "Vous etes une Veuve! Vous etes une Veuve! Mais! la Justice! ne l'a-t-elle pas vu maintes fois a ses pieds, le veuvage! ... encore tout ... saupoudre! d'arseme? Vous etes des orphelins! Mais! tous les parricides! ne sont-ils pas aussi des orphelins?" and the printer's details, "Imp. Lemercier, Paris" appear below the border in the lower margin. None of these lithographs were signed in the plate. The figures are either half-length or three-quarter legnth, with the exception of number 9 and 31. This original lithograph depicts a lawyer in court wearing the black legal robe, termed as the 'gown'. He is facing right and is speaking to the audience. HIs left hand is raised, the other is on the papers beside his black cap in front of him. This original lithograph hais from Gavarni's 1858 Suite entitled, "D'Apres Nature". The Beaux-arts de Paris, l'ecole nationale superieure includes an impression of "Vous etes une Veuve! ..." in its permanent collection, Inventory Number, Est 11209.
Raisonne:	J. Armelhault et Bocher, "Catalogue Raisonne: L'oeuvre de Gavarni, Lithographies Originales et essais d'eau-forte et de procedes nouveaux, Libraire des Bibliophiles, Rue Saint-Honore, 338 Paris, 1873, pages 400-405 'Ouvrages Divers', D'Apres Nature, page 405, Catalogue #1626, No XXXVIII "Vous etes une Veuve! Vous etes une Veuve! Mais! la Justice! ne l'a-t-elle pas vu maintes fois a ses pieds, le veuvage! ... encore tout ... saupoudre! d'arseme? Vous etes des orphelins! Mais! tous les parricides! ne sont-ils pas aussi des orphelins?" (You are a Widow! You are a Widow! But! Justice! Was she not often seen at his feet, widowhood! ... still ... all sprinkles! with arsenic? You are orphans! but! all parricides! aren't they not also orphans?). - Un avocat en robe (a lawyer in a robe), de pr., tourne a D., plaide a l'audience (facing to the right, speaking to the audience), une main en l'air, l'autre sur ses papiers pose, devant lui (one hand is raised, the other is on the papers in front of him). A cote de ces papiers est son bonnet (his cap is next to these papers). - En H. a G. 58-46. = H. 202, L. 161. 1er Etat. Avant toute lettre. Sans fil. (1st State, before letters. Whithout borders). - 2e Etat . Celui qui est decrit (2nd State, as described). This original lithograph is a 2rd state impression bearing the suite title, "D'Apres Nature" in the upper margin. As well as the artist's name, "Par Gavarni" within the lower borders, and the full title, "Vous etes une Veuve! ..." in the lower margin as published in 1858. It is a fine, original example of the lithographic art by Paul Gavarni, also listed as Hippolyte Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier.
Reference:	"D'apres nature", texte par MM. Jules Janin, Paul de Saint-Victor, Edmond Texier, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Morizot, Libraire-Editeur, 3 Rue Pavee-Saint Andre, Paris, 1858.
Size:	11 X 7 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Condition:	Printed upon nineteenth century wove paper and with full margins as published by Morizot, Libraire-Editeur, 3 Rue Pavee-Saint Andre, Paris in 1858 for Gavarni's Suite entitled, "D'Apres Nature". This is a 2nd State impression bearing the suite title, "D'Apres Nature" in the upper margin. As well as the artist's name, "Par Gavarni" within the lower borders, the full title, "Vous etes une Veuve! Vous etes une Veuve! Mais! la Justice! ne l'a-t-elle pas vu maintes fois a ses pieds, le veuvage! ... encore tout ... saupoudre! d'arseme? Vous etes des orphelins! Mais! tous les parricides! ne sont-ils pas aussi des orphelins?" and the printer's details, "Lemercier, Paris" in the lower margin as published in 1858. Apart from very faint marginal foxing this is a fine, early impression on superior 'sur blanc' paper and in excellent condition throughout. Altogether this original lithograph represents a prime example of the famous satirical art of Paul Gavarni.
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