Émile Zola (French novelist, playwright, and journalist, 1840-1902)
c. 1876
Medium
Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1876), volume 3
Dimensions
Image, oval: 19.8 × 15 cm (7 13/16 × 5 15/16 in.); Paper: 24 × 19 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.); Mount: 34.2 × 26 cm (13 1/2 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
woodburytype
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
144678
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....