Caricatorial Portrait of Pierre-Jean de Beranger
Etienne Carjat
c. 1856
Medium
Charcoal, heightened with white gouache, on tan wove paper, laid down on ivory card
Dimensions
48.5 × 31 cm (19 1/8 × 12 1/4 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
111744
About the Artist
Etienne Carjat · 1828–1906
Étienne Carjat (1828–1906) was a French photographer, caricaturist, and journalist who became one of the defining portraitists of nineteenth-century Parisian cultural life. Born in Fareins in the Ain department, he arrived in Paris as a young man and initially made his name as a caricaturist and writer, contributing to several satirical publications and cofounding the journal Le Boulevard in 1861....