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“Où trouver un duvet assez doux pour la couche.” (ca. 1843) by Paul Gavarni

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“Où trouver un duvet assez doux pour la couche.” (ca. 1843) by Paul Gavarni Comic Art

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Title:	“Où trouver un duvet assez doux pour la couche.” (ca. 1843) by Paul Gavarni
Artist:	Paul Gavarni (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	354
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Added to Site:	12/31/2019
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“Où trouver un duvet assez doux pour la couche.” (ca. 1843)
Paul Gavarni (1804-1866)
6 x 9 in., ink and watercolor wash on paper
Coppola Collection

A two-volume anthology entitled “Le Diable à Paris” was published sequentially in 1845-46. It was the first literary and artistic anthology published in the 1840s to include a chapter explaining to non-specialists what statistical data could reveal about Parisian social conditions. The chapter was not at all superficial; it contained seventeen pages of tables and explanatory notes that care- fully described what the new statistics showed about the standards of living of both rich and poor in Paris.

“Le Diable à Paris” is important to art historians because it included a series of illustrations by Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier, known as Gavarni, the popular Parisian illustrator who was one of the city's most colorful personalities. His entire series of illustrations showing types of Parisians, particularly the poorest ones, was popular enough to be later assembled as Les Gens de Paris in a separate book. Each illustration was captioned by Gavarni himself, who took pride in writing a touching or witty description for each image. Gavarni's illustrations included some of the cruelest scenes of waifs, paupers, beggars, and les miserables that had yet been done.

The book used engravings that were based on drawings, so this is the basis (or at least a draft) for the illustration that appeared. Its notation on the green paper matches the illustration.

Le Diable à Paris (Volume 2)
In “Hommes et Femmes de Plume”
Written with the published caption:
Où trouver un duvet assez doux pour la couche De celui qui promène un orgueilleux bonheur? Quels baisers sembleraient assez doux sur le coeur, Alice, après les tiens, pour le roi dont ta bouche A couronné le front rêveur?

And, at least according to Google Translate:
Where to find a duvet soft enough for the diaper
Of one who takes pride in happiness?
What kisses would seem sweet enough on the heart,
Alice, after yours, for the king whose mouth
Crowned the dreamy forehead?

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