Articles liés à Daumier and Gavarni, with Critical and Biographical...
Synopsis
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
France throughout the nineteenth century was, as it still continues to be, the illustrated comic journals. In the pages of Le Charivari more especially, some of the finest work of this class that has ever been done made its appearance, and it was for this journal that both Daumier and Gavarni made many of the drawings reproduced in the following pages. In the early part of the past century the principal cartoons in the comic papers were printed by lithography, and as the artists made their drawings directly upon the stone, the result was a much more perfect reproduction of their work than is usually obtainable by wood-engraving. Stone was the medium which Daumier and Gavarni employed more than any other for their work, and both artists hold rank amongst the most accomplished lithographic draughtsmen the world has produced. To see the great superiority of lithography over wood-engraving in its retention of every feature of the original handwork, it is only necessary to compare the lithographs by either of these men with the reproductions of the same drawings on wood, which have from time to time been made for the purpose of illustrating certain books published in France and elsewhere. In selecting illustrations preference has, therefore, been chiefly given to the lithographs. A mong the other sources trom which the illustrations here reproduced have been taken, mention must also be made of La Caricature Les Beaux Arts UA rtiste, Les Modes Parisiennes, La Gazette Musicale, Le Boulevard, Masques et Visages, and Gavarni in London. The Editor desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to those who, by loan of original impressions and photographs, or in other ways, have rendered him assistance in the preparation of this volume. His thanks are particularly due to M. Loys Delteil, M. Beurdeley, and Messrs. Durand-R uel etF ils, of Paris ;M r. E. J. van Wisselingh, of L
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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