Minneapolis Institute of Art

Portrait of Henri Bonaventure Monnier

Paul Gavarni (Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier)LinkedCulture matchlcp-04369fb56380

Date

1853

Medium

Lithograph

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Object ID

107158

Paul Gavarni was among the finest watercolorists of the nineteenth century and he is equally celebrated as a master of lithography. In Le Peintre de la vie moderne (1863), Baudelaire referred to Gavarni as a “veritable monument;” he concurred with his contemporaries that the works of Gavarni and Daumier should be considered the visual complements to Balzac’s literary masterpiece, La Comédie humaine. The museum owns some 150 lithographs, four watercolors, and one lithographic stone by Gavarni, as well as some thirty works by Monnier. France, Europe

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