Hector Malot
Etienne Carjat
c. 1876
Medium
Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1879), volume 7
Dimensions
19.7 × 14.9 (image, oval); 34 × 26 cm (mount)
Classification
woodburytype
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
144667
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....