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Les maîtres humoristes, les meilleurs dessins, les meilleures legendes

Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866, Forain, Jean Louis, 1852-1931, Caran d'Ache, 1859-1909, Hermann, Paul, Huard, Charles, Rabies, Benjamin Armand, Bac, Ferdinand, 1859-1952, Métivet, Lucien-Marie-François, b. 1863, Jeanniot, Pierre-Georges, 1848-1934, Poulbot, Francisque, 1879-1946, Willette, Adolphe, Somm, Henry, 1844-1907, Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879, Avelot, Henri, b. 1873, Léandre, Charles, 1862-1934, Préjelan, R, Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945 · 1905 · Paris, Juven · 109 pictures

A volume from the Paris series Les maîtres humoristes, issued by Juven in 1905, gathering captioned cartoons by Gavarni, Jean-Louis Forain, Caran d'Ache and Hermann-Paul for French readers of satirical weeklies. The drawings are soft crayon lithographs of two or three figures — top-hatted men, women in long skirts, servants, bedside and café corners — set against smudged grey grounds with little furniture, useful for loose gestural figure groups, sooty shading and caption-and-image layouts.

Caricatures and cartoons · Painting

Internet Archive · University of Toronto, Robarts Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0