About Paul Gavarni
Paul Gavarni was the pen name of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier, a French illustrator, born in Paris. His first published drawings were for the magazine Journal des modes. His sharp and witty drawings gave these generally commonplace and unartistic figures a life-likeness and an expression which soon won him a name in fashionable circles.
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