Glues
1906
Fernand Gottlob, a celebrated French illustrator of the Belle Époque, brings his signature wit to this 1906 sketch titled 'Colles.' The artwork presents two vignettes of a couple: in the top half, a woman in a corset smiles coquettishly at a man facing away, while below, she leans over a desk to scribble a note as he watches. The handwritten caption at the bottom reveals a darkly humorous twist—she writes that she won't be home tonight because she's just been 'run over' by a 46-horsepower car, a cheeky commentary on the dangers of modern traffic in early 1900s Paris. Gottlob's loose, energetic lines perfectly capture the playful yet slightly macabre spirit of Parisian life at the turn of the century.
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