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  • When Gavarni came to England a few years since — one of the wittiest of men, one of the most brilliant and dexterous of draughtsmen — he published a book of

    John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character 2006

  • Gavarni is represented mocking the headsman; and, accompanying the design, is an autograph letter to Dutacq, managing director of the

    Balzac 2003

  • Scribe, Stendhal, Merimee, Henry Monnier, Daumier, and Gavarni were some of the men whose work illustrated the bourgeois regime, either prior to or contemporaneous with the work of Balzac.

    Balzac 2003

  • Gavarni and were parading this world by way of walking advertisements of the edition.

    The Insulted and the Injured 2003

  • A movement of disinterested generosity displayed by him in the same year was his fight, in conjunction with the artist Gavarni, on behalf of Sebastien Benoit Peytel.

    Balzac 2003

  • Ardizzone is not a literary painter in the sense in which Hogarth or Gavarni or Daumier is "literary."

    Fine Art for Kids Bell, Quentin 1980

  • Scribe, Stendhal, Merimee, Henry Monnier, Daumier, and Gavarni were some of the men whose work illustrated the bourgeois _regime_, either prior to or contemporaneous with the work of Balzac.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • A curious drawing by Balzac exists in the first volume of his general correspondence, in which Gavarni is represented mocking the headsman; and, accompanying the design, is an autograph letter to Dutacq, managing director of the

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • Thackeray and Tourgueneff have achieved in literature, and Gavarni in caricature, by the faithful representation of phases of modern life.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various

  • A movement of disinterested generosity displayed by him in the same year was his fight, in conjunction with the artist Gavarni, on behalf of Sebastien Benoit Peytel.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

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