Currently not on view
Caricature of Gustave Perdonnet,
1867
Etienne Carjat, French, 1828–1906
2012-5
By 1854, Carjat had emerged as a journalist, publisher, and fashionable caricaturist of cutting wit. His drawings, lithographs, cultural reviews, and—after 1858—distinctive portrait photography centered on the political and literary personalities of his time. The subject of this portrait charge drawing is Gustave Perdonnet (1822–1913), the younger brother of Auguste Perdonnet, a famed railroad engineer from Lausanne, Switzerland. Pictured in front of his family home, Gustave holds a toy horse by a string—a double allusion to both the fame of his brother and his own status as the youngest in the family.
Information
Title
Caricature of Gustave Perdonnet
Dates
1867
Maker
Medium
Charcoal heightened with white chalk
Dimensions
45.9 x 29.6 cm (18 1/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Felton Gibbons Fund
Object Number
2012-5
Place Made
Europe, France
Place Depicted
Switzerland, Lausanne, Maison de Mon-Repos, Parc de Mon Repos
Signatures
Signed in graphite lower left: ET CARJAT.60
Culture
Type
Materials
Puchased by the Princeton University Art Musuem
