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Also Known As Louis-André Gosset
Born October 1840 • Paris • France
Died 1885 (aged 44) • France

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“Glatigny the Improviser,” pen and ink caricature by André Gill; in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris
Victor Hugo illustration
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Robida illustration
Albert Robida
French illustrator
Grandville
French cartoonist
Caran d’Ache
Russian-French caricaturist
Al Hirschfeld
Al Hirschfeld
American caricaturist
Leech, John
John Leech
British caricaturist
Rowlandson, Thomas: Comet
Thomas Rowlandson
English painter and caricaturist
George Cruikshank
British artist
Charles Dana Gibson.
Charles Dana Gibson
American artist
Harry Furniss: Getting Gladstone's Collar Up
Harry Furniss
Anglo-Irish caricaturist
Miguel Covarrubias
Mexican painter and writer
du Maurier, George: Study at a Quiet French Watering-Place
George du Maurier
British author and caricaturist
Leslie Ward, detail of a watercolour by “Pal,” 1889; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Leslie Ward
British caricaturist
Olaf Gulbransson
Norwegian artist
Doyle, Richard: The Fairy Queen's Messenger
Richard Doyle
British artist
French artist Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
French artist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
Georges Rouault
French artist