Worldly painting by Albert Guillaume portraitist of the good Parisian society.

Frame 57,3x47,5 cm

Albert Guillaume is the son of the architect Edmond Guillaume. He is one of the most renowned caricaturists of the Belle Époque. His older sister Marie Guillaume-Lami, born in 1867, who signed M. G. Lami, was also an illustrator and caricaturist.

Influenced by Jules Chéret, he creates posters for the theater as well as for advertising: two of his creations will be published in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche. At the same time, he pursued a career as a painter where he humorously painted the portrait of good Parisian society.

Albert Guillaume is famous for his satirical cartoons published in Parisian humor magazines such as Gil Blas, Le Rire, Le Frou-frou, L'Assiette au Beurre, Le Figaro illustré and Le Pays de France.

Many of his illustrations are published in albums by publishers such as Jules Tallandier, Ernest Maindron and Henri Simonis Empis. He also published three albums of military drawings, including Mes Campagnes (1896), prefaced by Georges Courteline.

On the occasion of the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris, he created, with his brother Henri, the attraction of the "Théâtre des Bonshommes Guillaume" which stages a series of satirical puppets sounded by a phonograph which earned him to be a bronze medal winner.

Guillaume retired at the end of his life to the small village of Faux in the Dordogne, where he died in 1942.

These search criteria may interest you: