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)
- Binettes d’électeurs 1870
- La v. espagnole
- Zut
- La maîtresse d’école 1870
- Le pois de senteur – M.Jules Simon 1871
- Actualité, par Alfred Le Petit 187
- Vermorel
- L’Aigle Impérial
- Têtes à perruques 1870
- Le Grelot La boutique à treize
- Notre-Dame de Paris Portraits et costumes des acteurs, dessinés d’après nature 1879
- Armand Barbès
- La vénus espagnole & le prince de Joinville
- M. Félix Pyat 1871
- M. Schoelcher
- Martin M. Ernest Picard ne nous ayant point accordé l’autorisation de publier sa charge 1870
- Plante grasse – M. Crémieux
- Le chardon – M.P. Tirard
- La résurrection 1870
- Sage-femme de 1(re) classe 1870