In Villérand
Fernand Louis Gottlob, a master of Art Nouveau illustration, serves up a delicious slice of dark satire here. Two well-dressed bourgeois gentlemen stand in the foreground, looking remarkably calm as they observe a frenzy of waving arms and frantic figures behind iron bars. The handwritten caption at the bottom delivers the punchline: 'The poor people! How numerous they are!! - Indeed Sir, we always have a mad crowd here!' It’s a clever play on words, mocking the upper class's detached view of society's outcasts, likely in an asylum setting. The loose, sketchy lines perfectly capture the chaotic energy of the 'mad world' behind the fence.
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