Paris herself again in 1878-9 . at present is one M. Andre Gill, whose bold, dashing, tren-chant productions adorn a series of cheap publications called LaLime Jlousse and La Petite Lune. Great power and extreme bru-tality are the leading characteristics of the style of M. Andre Gill,wbose real name, I learn, is De Guines, and who seems, accordingto one; of his recent biographers in a minor newspaper, to havepassed through the most moving vicissitudes of fortune ere heachieved artistic fame. As a caricaturist he is as clever as ourMr. Pellegrini; but he is a great deal more cruel; and he doesn
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . at present is one M. Andre Gill, whose bold, dashing, tren-chant productions adorn a series of cheap publications called LaLime Jlousse and La Petite Lune. Great power and extreme bru-tality are the leading characteristics of the style of M. Andre Gill,wbose real name, I learn, is De Guines, and who seems, accordingto one; of his recent biographers in a minor newspaper, to havepassed through the most moving vicissitudes of fortune ere heachieved artistic fame. As a caricaturist he is as clever as ourMr. Pellegrini; but he is a great deal more cruel; and he doesnot spare the ladies, to whom Mr. Pellegrini would never dreamof being artistically ungallant. CO PARIS HERSELF AGAIX. The latest production of M. Gill, and one which is selling bytens of thousands, is an enormous caricature portrait of Made-moiselle Sarah Bernhardt, the actress, as a baboon in trousers,with a very long tail, a painters palette in one hand, and a sculp-tors chisel and mallet in the other. Mademoiselle Bernhardt*. MADEMOISELLE SARAH BERNHARDT, BY ANDRE GILL. odd penchant for making balloon ascents, and her seeming inabilityto paint or sculpt save in boys clothes, have already been madethe subject of good-natured badinage; but surely it is scarcelykind, it is scarcely courteous, to caricature a very clever young THROUGH THE PASSAGES. 61 lady in the guise of a huge ape. I might almost say that thislampoon was libellous, did I not remember that, by the law ofFrance, the publication of a personal caricature is prohibited un-less the individual so caricatured authorises the production. Thusan artist in one of the comic periodicals recently put forth a veryfunny but not very good-natured counterfeit presentment of M. deYillemessant, of the Figaro. M. de Villemessant is somewhat ofa stout gentleman; * but the artist represented him as a kind ofSir John Falstaff plus Daniel Lambert, and with at least threedouble chins. The outraged director of the Figaro threatenedlegal
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