GAVARNI, Paul [Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier] (1804-1866)

Lot 272
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Lot 272 | GAVARNI, Paul [Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier] (1804-1866)
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£ 1 000 – 1 500
GAVARNI, Paul [Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier] (1804-1866)

Le Carnavale a Paris. Paris: Aubert and Banger & Cie, [n.d. but c. 1841-1843].

A wonderful collection illustrating the costumes of the Paris carnival. In the nineteenth century, the Paris carnival was the most extravagant among the European carnivals. It would last for several days and consist of masked balls, both private and public, street processions and feasting during which vibrant street scenes, costumes and decorated floats would be on display. Armelhault & Bocher 397-422; Bobins IV, 1213.



Folio (347 x 252mm). 40 lithograph plates, coloured by a contemporary hand, with captions and numbering, one by J. S. after Gavarni (plate 32), the remainder by Gavarni, faint paper makers blind stamp (some faint finger-soiling, short marginal tare repairs to plates 1, 10, 25, 29, 39). Contemporary quarter red roan over red patterned cloth, marbled endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed).





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