Styles Genres Museums Artists Support

An open visual arts database with 1,000,000+ artworks, 85,000+ artists, and 1,800+ styles spanning centuries of human creativity.

Browse

Styles
Genres
Museums
Artists
Favorites

Popular Styles

Impressionism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Cubism
Realism

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago
MoMA
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The MET
Louvre

VisualArtsDB is free and open for everyone.

Support the project

© 2026 VisualArtsDB

Head of an Old Man by Paul Gavarni [Chevalier] — VisualArtsDB

Home
Drawings
Head of an Old Man

Head of an Old Man

Head of an Old Man

Paul Gavarni [Chevalier]

1858

Medium: brown ink
Dimensions: Sheet: 27 x 20.7 cm (10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art

Styles

Tags

France, 19th century

More by Paul Gavarni [Chevalier]

You don't know your lesson . . .

You don't know your lesson . . .

Paul Gavarni [Chevalier]

Minonminard is Getting Old (Minonminard se fait vieux)

Minonminard is Getting Old (Minonminard se fait vieux)

Paul Gavarni [Chevalier]

L'Amateur des Jardins

L'Amateur des Jardins

Paul Gavarni [Chevalier], 1824

Of the unhappy people like this, one sees them with only one eye ... and not out of an attic window!, p. 57.

Of the unhappy people like this, one sees them with only one eye ... and not out of an attic window!, p. 57.

Paul Gavarni [Chevalier], 1853

Orientale

Orientale

Paul Gavarni [Chevalier]

The Commentary

The Commentary

Paul Gavarni [Chevalier], 1843

Men? What a thing to propose!, p. 73

Men? What a thing to propose!, p. 73

Paul Gavarni [Chevalier], 1853

Les-Parents-Terribles series: Will you read that chapter over again...

Les-Parents-Terribles series: Will you read that chapter over again...

Paul Gavarni [Chevalier], 1853

Do you know, Partagé, which village in France has the most knock-kneed clockmakers? -No. Where's that? -Well, it's Pau! -Why? -No one has ever been able to figure it out!, p. 19

Do you know, Partagé, which village in France has the most knock-kneed clockmakers? -No. Where's that? -Well, it's Pau! -Why? -No one has ever been able to figure it out!, p. 19

Paul Gavarni [Chevalier], 1853

Gère m'am'celle, fod'dit pillet n'est blis tant mes mains . . .

Gère m'am'celle, fod'dit pillet n'est blis tant mes mains . . .

Paul Gavarni [Chevalier]

Henry Monnier

Henry Monnier

Paul Gavarni [Chevalier], 1843

A Poor Family

A Poor Family

Paul Gavarni [Chevalier], 1843