Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Etienne Carjat
c. 1863
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 21.8 × 17 cm (8 5/8 × 6 3/4 in.); Mount: 26.6 × 22.6 cm (10 1/2 × 8 15/16 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
92159
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....