Paris, The great Art exhibition: In the Great Salon, A moment of reflection
Etienne Carjat
1868, printed 1920
Medium
Wood engraving on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image: 15.7 × 22.2 cm (6 3/16 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 31.6 × 45.9 cm (12 1/2 × 18 1/8 in.)
Classification
wood engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
30373
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....