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La mascarade parisienne : album de 60 caricatures

Cham, 1819-1879, artist · 1869 · Paris : Arnauld de Vresse, éditeur · 28 pictures

La mascarade parisienne is an 1869 Paris album of sixty caricatures by the French artist Cham (Amédée de Noé, 1819-1879), published by Arnauld de Vresse for a general urban audience. The pen-and-ink drawings are satirical scenes of Parisian society, with exaggerated faces, stooped figures and crowded interiors, and a designer might take their loose hatched shading and comic gesture as a model for editorial cartoons or witty stylised character work.

French wit and humor, Pictorial · Caricatures and cartoons

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library