Gavarni
Gavarni (pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier, 1804–66),Parisian illustrator and watercolourist. Trained as an architect, he was a popular and prolific illustrator whose engravings appeared in La Mode and Le Charivari. He was a close friend of Balzac, and his work was likewise praised for its encyclopaedic attention to detail in portraying all levels of society. In addition to Robinson Crusoe (1861) and Gulliver's Travels (1862), he illustrated E. T. A. Hoffmann's fantastic tales (1843) and Mme Leprince de Beaumont's fairy tales (1865).
Mary Louise Ennis
Bibliography
Landre, Jeanne, Gavarni (1970).
Stamm, Therese Dolan, Gavarni and the Critics (1981).
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