DOI Heft:
No. 59 (February, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Mourey, Gabriel: A French caricaturist: Caran d'Ache
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0049
Cavaii D'Ache
he. In the first place, they are true and precise
and certain ; but, better still, they reveal in all their
perfection the beauty, the grandeur, the fiery spirit
•of the noblest of animals. Thoroughly to realise
how great is the mastery he has of his subject, one
must really go through his innumerable sketches,
showing the horse in every conceivable attitude,
now bounding along in splendid stride, now rest-
lessly champing his bit, now motionless in dignified
pose.
Caran d'Ache draws all animals delightfully.
BY CAB \\ D'ACHE
36
Glancing through his albums, one comes across
dogs, whose every attitude is seized with the most
charming truth and delicacy. In fact, his gifts are
great and various. Whether he choose to amuse
us with his witty incidents, or deal, as in his mili-
tary drawings, with most serious subjects, his
work is ever stamped with the seal of genuine
originality. How many artists are there, how many
simple draughtsmen, whose touch one can recog-
nise among a thousand ? And among the avowed
humorists are there many whose pencil so com-
pletely realises the spirit of their fancies?
In Caran d'Ache's work, however—rare
exceptions apart—there is ever the same
spirit of fun, the same sound workmanship.
In his caricatures of well-known characters
—his Courses dans VAntiquity is full of
them—he often achieves the funniest
effects, to those, at least, who know the
originals; while his illustrations of the
events of the hour, which have appeared
for several years in the pages of the
Figaro, afford ample proof of his invaluable
faculty of observation, which, as I have
already said, forms the basis of his pictorial
ability.
Just as he deals now with the travels of
President Faure, so he treated a few years
ago the excursions of President Carnot,
whose stiff, solemn manner inspired many
a laughable drawing. In the same way he
handled the recent Franco-Russian fetes,
and the visit of the Preobajenski Hand to
Paris. In regard to every actuality in fact,
he shows himself remarkably well informed,
and so keen is he to seize the comic aspect
of passing events, that even years after it is
;i pleasure to come across his drawings, in
which one may always find some forgotten
he. In the first place, they are true and precise
and certain ; but, better still, they reveal in all their
perfection the beauty, the grandeur, the fiery spirit
•of the noblest of animals. Thoroughly to realise
how great is the mastery he has of his subject, one
must really go through his innumerable sketches,
showing the horse in every conceivable attitude,
now bounding along in splendid stride, now rest-
lessly champing his bit, now motionless in dignified
pose.
Caran d'Ache draws all animals delightfully.
BY CAB \\ D'ACHE
36
Glancing through his albums, one comes across
dogs, whose every attitude is seized with the most
charming truth and delicacy. In fact, his gifts are
great and various. Whether he choose to amuse
us with his witty incidents, or deal, as in his mili-
tary drawings, with most serious subjects, his
work is ever stamped with the seal of genuine
originality. How many artists are there, how many
simple draughtsmen, whose touch one can recog-
nise among a thousand ? And among the avowed
humorists are there many whose pencil so com-
pletely realises the spirit of their fancies?
In Caran d'Ache's work, however—rare
exceptions apart—there is ever the same
spirit of fun, the same sound workmanship.
In his caricatures of well-known characters
—his Courses dans VAntiquity is full of
them—he often achieves the funniest
effects, to those, at least, who know the
originals; while his illustrations of the
events of the hour, which have appeared
for several years in the pages of the
Figaro, afford ample proof of his invaluable
faculty of observation, which, as I have
already said, forms the basis of his pictorial
ability.
Just as he deals now with the travels of
President Faure, so he treated a few years
ago the excursions of President Carnot,
whose stiff, solemn manner inspired many
a laughable drawing. In the same way he
handled the recent Franco-Russian fetes,
and the visit of the Preobajenski Hand to
Paris. In regard to every actuality in fact,
he shows himself remarkably well informed,
and so keen is he to seize the comic aspect
of passing events, that even years after it is
;i pleasure to come across his drawings, in
which one may always find some forgotten