Caricature of a Man
n.d.
Medium
Charcoal, heightened with white chalk, on pieced tan wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Primary support: 48.4 × 32.1 cm (19 1/16 × 12 11/16 in.); Secondary support: 55.9 × 34.3 cm (22 1/16 × 13 9/16 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
205656
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....