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
- Grandeur et décadence
- La résurrection 1870
- Entrée triomphale du petit Badinguet dans sa bonne ville de Paris 1878
- Le perce-neige – Le général Chanzy
- Ferré
- Têtes à perruques 1870
- Actualité, par Alfred Le Petit 1870
- Binettes d’électeurs 1870
- Caricature de Victor Hugo, candidat malheureux à l’élection législative complémentaire du 7 janvier 1872 1872
- L’arbre de Noël L’embarras du choix 1871
- Le four du roi de Prusse 1870
- Le décrotteur du roi Guillaume
- Henri Rochefort
- Actualité, par Alfred Le Petit 187
- Fleur desséchée – M. Littré
- Auguste Vacquerie. 1882
- Sage-femme de 1(re) classe 1870
- La maîtresse d’école 1870
- Ferat
- L’Aigle Impérial