Art Institute of Chicago

Caricature of a Man

Etienne Carjat

Date

n.d.

Medium

Charcoal, heightened with white chalk, on pieced tan wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Culture

France

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

Better known as one of France’s pioneering 19th-century photographers, Carjat also worked as a caricaturist, producing lithographs of famous Parisian actors for theater journals. These portraits chargés (literally “loaded portraits”) may refer to Joseph Méry, a French journalist, poet, and playwright, and his brother Louis, also a writer. They join a renowned collection of caricatures by Claude Monet in the Art Institute.

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