GAVARNI
French illustrator (1804-1866)
Biography:
Hippolyte Chevalier, alias Gavarni, was born in Paris in 1804. He was a very prolific illustrator and he published in magazines and in album form for Aubert andLibrairie Nouvelle editors. In 1850 he went to England to exhibit in Royal Academy. When he came back to France, he began a new series of drawings. His work reaches more than eight-thousand illustrations.
Works illustrated by Gavarni:
Daniel Defoe, Aventures de Robinson Crusoé, illustrated by Gavarni, Morizot, 1861.
Alexandre Dumas son, La Dame aux camélias, with Neuville, 1875.
Ernest Theodor Wilhelm Amadeus Hoffmann, Contes fantastiques, 1843.
Mme Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Contes des fées, Librairie centrale, 1865.
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver, Morizot, 1862, 16 ill.