Caricature of a Man
1859
Medium
Charcoal, heightened with white chalk, on tan wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Primary support: 48.8 × 31.7 cm (19 1/4 × 12 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 56.7 × 34.5 cm (22 3/8 × 13 5/8 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
205658
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....