Le Charivari “VIE PRIVEE” Lithograph By ALFRED GREVIN, 1873-76 (035)
Full page is approximately 17 x 11 1/2 inches.
Alfred Grévin, FRENCH (28 January 1827 – 5 May 1892)
GREVIN was a 19th-century caricaturist, best known during his lifetime for his caricature silhouettes of contemporary Parisian women. He was also a sculptor, cartoonist, and designed costumes and sets for popular theater. In 1853 he moved to Paris. He put his cartooning talents at the service of the newspaper Le Gaulois. By the 1870s, he was working for Le Journal Amusant and Le Charivari. To supplement his meager salary as a cartoonist and illustrator, he worked as a theater costume designer, and wrote plays.
Le Charivari was an illustrated magazine published in Paris, France, from 1832 to 1937. It published caricatures, political cartoons and reviews. After 1835, when the government banned political caricature, Le Charivari began publishing satires of everyday life. The name refers to the folk practice of holding a charivari, a loud, riotous parade, to shame or punish wrongdoers. Artists of the Charivari included Daumier, Gavarni and many others.
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