The Opera Ball: You are having too much fun!
Etienne Carjat
1868, printed 1920
Medium
Wood engraving on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image: 16 × 22.4 cm (6 5/16 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 32.3 × 47.1 cm (12 3/4 × 18 9/16 in.)
Classification
wood engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
30402
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....