Leisurely

All Resolutions

A new novel, a young love, an old pipe.

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Artist

Name:
Gavarni, Paul
Dates:
1804-1866
Country:
France

Illustration

Subjects:
Humor, Narratives, People
Technique:
Wood Engraving
Engraver:
Piaud, Antoine-Alphée
Format:
Portrait (taller)
Source:
the Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:
Œuvres choisies de Gavarni, vol. 4
Author:
Gavarni, Paul
Publisher:
Paris: Garnier Frères, n.d. [ca. 1848?]
Open Library:
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Description:

This illustration was taken from the series “La vie de jeune homme” (Bachelor’s life), which describes various situations that a single young man with a penchant for bohemianism could meet in Paris in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Here we have a young gentleman reclining and smoking a long, chibouk-like pipe, while his fiancée is reading in the background: women, of course, played a prominent part in that lifestyle and money came in a close second, or more accurately, the relentless pursuit of how much of it was necessary to spend the evening out. And tobacco was an essential prop.

The caption reads in the original French: Un roman nouveau, un jeune amour, une vieille pipe.

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