Alfred Le Petit
Prolific French political caricaturist and illustrator
Alfred Le Petit was a French caricaturist, born in Aumale. He studied drawing, painting and photography and began his career as a caricaturist in Rouen. He eventually settled in Paris, where he contributed to the magazine L'Eclipse. In 1870 he founded Le Charge, in which he heavily criticized Napoleon III. He additionally contributed to Le Grelot and Le Charivari and founded Le Pétard and Le Sans-Culotte. He illustrated 'Gros-Jean et son Curé' (by Auguste Roussel de Merry), 'La Bible Farce' (by Pierre Malvezin) and 'La Vie Drolatique'. Disappointed by the politics of Jules Ferry in the 1880s, Le Petit defended general Boulanger and sided against Dreyfus in his work. He spent his final years making caricatures of tourists on the first floor of the Eiffel tower, and singing and playing the violin in cabarets.
Artworks by this artist (86 total)
- Le pois de senteur – M.Jules Simon 1871
- Mme Edmond Adam
- Le laurier – Garibaldi
- Le perce-neige – Le général Chanzy
- Emile Zola
- Delescluze
- Le plus lourd l’emporte
- Fleurs fruits et légumes du jour page de garde
- L’oeil du maître
- Lullier 1871
- Les pièces en vogue
- La résurrection 1870
- Les pièces en vogue N°4 Théâtre-français Ruy-Blas
- Alfred Le Petit 1890
- Course électorale 1871
- Actualité, par Alfred Le Petit 1870
- Paris et Versailles 1871
- Le Grelot La boutique à treize
- Le porc des Tuileries
- Le raisin – Henri Rochefort