Oeuvres choisies de Gavarni
A collection of Paul Gavarni's selected lithographic caricatures of Parisian social life, issued by J. Hetzel in Paris in 1848 for a middle-class readership that followed illustrated satire in the press. The plates are wood-engraved figure studies in loose hatching against blank or lightly shaded grounds: couples in armchairs, masked carnival-goers in dominoes, dandies in frock coats and stirrup trousers, useful for period costume reference and for isolated two-figure vignettes.
