....Monsieur Albert? C'est un monsieur du Jardin-des-Plantes, qui vient tous les jours pour faire l'explication des bêtes à Maman: un grand qui à des moustaches que tu ne connais pas. Il n'est venu aujourd'hui qu'apres qu'on à en fermé les singes... tu sais comme est maman? elle la joliment arrangé, va!.... Oh! comme tu n'en a presque plus sur les dessus, des cheveaux, Papa!.... (Primary Title)
Les Enfans Terribles (Series Title)
Paul Gavarni, French, 1804 - 1866 (Artist)
Numbered in stone, in reverse, lower left: 170. Printed in upper margin: Les Enfans Terribles 21. Printed beneath image in center: Par Gavarni. Printed beneath image lower left: Chez Bauger R. du Croissant, 16. Printed beneath image lower right: Imp d'Aubert & Cie. Printed in lower margin: ....Monsieur Albert? C'est un monsieur du Jardin-des-Plantes, qui vient tous les/ jours pour faire l'explication des bêtes à Maman: un grand qui à des moustaches/ que tu ne connais pas. Il n'est venu aujourd'hui qu'apres qu'on à en fermé les/ singes... tu sais comme est maman? elle la joliment arrangé, va!.... Oh!/ comme tu n'en a presque plus sur les dessus, des cheveaux, Papa!.... Inscribed in ink on verso at lower edge: M. Albert? He is a gentleman of the Jardin des Plantes who comes/ every day to explain the animals to Mama- a big man/ with mustaches- you don't know him. He didn't come to day/ until they shut up the monkeys- you know how Mama is/ she arranges it beautifully- __ But when there is no more/ under the hair than you have, Papa!
Gift of Margaret Dashiell
Maherault, J., J. Armelhaut, Emmanuel Bocher. L'Oeuvre de Gavarni, lithographies originales et essais d'eau-forte et de procedés nouveaux (Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1873).
Comments: J. Maherault is pseudonym for J. Armelhaut. 300 copies. Reprint with illustrations. (Dijon: L'Echelle de Jacob, 2002) [MH-FA]. Reprint with English text (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2004).
Entries: 2,740. Millimeters. Inscriptions. States. Described.
OCLC: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=L%27Oeuvre+de+Gavarni%2C+lithographies+originales+et+essais+d%27eau-forte+et+de+proced%C3%A9s+nouveaux&qt=results_page
Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siècle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes (Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892) vol. VII, pp. 5-82.
Comments: 12 vols. Beraldi does not provide complete catalogues for all of the artists he lists. Riggs indexed all artists listed by Beraldi, but provides only a volume and page reference for those not fully catalogued.
Entries: 318+. Paper fold measure (selection).
Bouvy, Eugène. "Un état non decrit de la série 'Par-ci par-là' de Gavarni." L'Amateur d'estampes 7 (1928): 123-124.
Entries: Additional information to Maherault [Armelhaut] and Bocher.
Laran, Jean et al. Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1930-ongoing) vol. 8, pp. 465-581 [MH-FA].
Comments: 15 vols. Lists prints in the Bibliothèque nationale, and for many artists this is equivalent to a complete or nearly complete oeuvre-catalogue. The Print Council Index indicates only the number of entries, but often the catalogue also gives dimensions (millimeters), inscriptions, states and descriptions.
Entries: 488+.
Charles Philipon, La Caricature, 1830-1835: lithographies complètes: an illustrated catalogue raisonné of the lithographs (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2017).
Comments: 524 lithographs published in La Caricature by various artists. Illustrated.
Entries: See Comments.
OCLC: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=charles+philipon+raisonne&qt=results_page
Comments: J. Maherault is pseudonym for J. Armelhaut. 300 copies. Reprint with illustrations. (Dijon: L'Echelle de Jacob, 2002) [MH-FA]. Reprint with English text (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2004).
Entries: 2,740. Millimeters. Inscriptions. States. Described.
OCLC: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=L%27Oeuvre+de+Gavarni%2C+lithographies+originales+et+essais+d%27eau-forte+et+de+proced%C3%A9s+nouveaux&qt=results_page
Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siècle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes (Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892) vol. VII, pp. 5-82.
Comments: 12 vols. Beraldi does not provide complete catalogues for all of the artists he lists. Riggs indexed all artists listed by Beraldi, but provides only a volume and page reference for those not fully catalogued.
Entries: 318+. Paper fold measure (selection).
Bouvy, Eugène. "Un état non decrit de la série 'Par-ci par-là' de Gavarni." L'Amateur d'estampes 7 (1928): 123-124.
Entries: Additional information to Maherault [Armelhaut] and Bocher.
Laran, Jean et al. Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1930-ongoing) vol. 8, pp. 465-581 [MH-FA].
Comments: 15 vols. Lists prints in the Bibliothèque nationale, and for many artists this is equivalent to a complete or nearly complete oeuvre-catalogue. The Print Council Index indicates only the number of entries, but often the catalogue also gives dimensions (millimeters), inscriptions, states and descriptions.
Entries: 488+.
Charles Philipon, La Caricature, 1830-1835: lithographies complètes: an illustrated catalogue raisonné of the lithographs (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2017).
Comments: 524 lithographs published in La Caricature by various artists. Illustrated.
Entries: See Comments.
OCLC: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=charles+philipon+raisonne&qt=results_page
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