Joseph Germain Mathieu Roubaud, called "Benjamin", (29 May 1811 – 13 January 1847), the son of Mathieu Aubert Roubaud and Rosalie Caillol, was a 19th-century French painter,
lithographer
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and
caricaturist
A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures.
List of caricaturists
* Abed Abdi (born 1942)
* Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003)
* Alex Gard (1900–1948)
* Alexander Saroukhan (1898–1977)
* Alfred Grévin (1827–1892)
* Alf ...
.
Biography
In Paris Roubaud was a student of painter
Louis Hersent
Louis Hersent (10 March 1777 – 2 October 1860) was a French painter.
Life and career
He was born in Paris. He became a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, and obtained the Prix de Rome in 1797. In the Salon of 1802, he showed ''Metamorphosis of Na ...
. From 1833 to 1847, he exhibited at the
Salon genre paintings, landscapes, portraits, still lifes in the way of the master, and became a painter of an honorable place. After 1840, he was correspondent in Algiers of the magazine ''
L'Illustration
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'' and at the end of his life, treated subjects related to Algeria.
It is as a cartoonist and caricaturist that he showed the fullness of his talent. Alongside artists like
Daumier or
Grandville, he collaborated from 1830 to 1835 with ''
La Caricature'' and ''
Le Charivari
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'', illustrated satirical newspapers directed by
Charles Philipon
Charles Philipon (19 April 1800 – 25 January 1861) was a French lithographer, caricaturist and journalist. He was the founder and director of the satirical political journals '' La Caricature'' and of ''Le Charivari''.
Early life
Cha ...
(of whom he drew a
portrait charge, as well as with other newspapers such as '. From 1839 to 1841, he realized for the ''Galerie de la presse, de la littérature et des arts'' and the ''Panthéon charivarique'', portraits of personalities among the most influential of the time which now make prominent historical documents (100 boards).
Series published at Aubert
* ''Les Annonces'' (with Philipon), ''Les Mauvais Locataires, Vie et Aventures de M. Jobard, La Contrebande aux Barrières, Enfantillages '';
* ''Portraits-Charge'' for the ''Miroir drolatique''.
* ''Le Grand chemin de la postérité'' : 3 series (men of letters, playwrights, novelists, actors), large leaves in width, each comprising two strips of portraits-charges.
Point of view
"Benjamin Roubaud hardly reaches the comic; just drawing attracts him more; he pencils carefully, with charm; the sake of accuracy gives him a taste of the portrait-charge, which he successfully creates" (Émile Bayard, ''La Caricature et les caricaturistes'', (p. 125).
Bibliography
*
Émile Bayard, ''La caricature et les caricaturistes'', Paris, Delagrave, 1900.
*
Bénézit
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**
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* ''Allgemeines Künstler Lexikon : die bildender Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker'', Saur, München, K. G. Saur, 1992.
*
John Grand-Carteret, ''Les Mœurs et la Caricature en France'', 1888.
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19th-century French painters
French male painters
19th-century French lithographers
French caricaturists
French editorial cartoonists
1811 births
People from Bouches-du-Rhône
1847 deaths
19th-century French male artists