Ne bougeons plus!
1895
About this artwork
This is a cover illustration for the French satirical journal Le Rire, published on July 13, 1895. The work features a stylized, flat composition typical of Vallotton's graphic print style.
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Félix Vallotton was a renowned Swiss-French painter and printmaker who became famous for his stark, black-and-white woodcuts and lithographs in the 1890s. This specific piece captures the bourgeois obsession with the emerging technology of photography, humorously depicting a family attempting to hold a stiff, awkward pose while waiting for the flash or long exposure required by 19th-century cameras.
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Ne bougeons plus!
Félix Vallotton, 1895
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