- Also known as
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Charles Joseph Traviès
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primary name: Traviès de Villers, Charles Joseph
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other name: Traviès, Charles Joseph
- Details
- individual; printmaker; French; Male
- Life dates
- 1804-1859
- Biography
- Lithographer and caricaturist. Between 1830 and 1835 his lithographs were published in 'La Caricature' and 'Le Charivari'. In this occasion he met Daumier, Charlet and Grandville. He was a firm critic of the Republican petit-bourgeois type, which he satirized by the means of his most successful character, the hunchback Mayeux. After 1839, Traviès published several series of lithographs such as 'Physiognomie de Paris'. His manner became close to that of his friend Daumier and his grasp of lithography improved. This change can be found for example in the 'Plaisirs Parisiens' (1842) where Traviès executed cross-hatching. For some of the shades, he preferred pen and lithographic ink to crayon.
- Bibliography
- Claude Ferment, 'Charles-Joseph Traviès. Catalogue de son oeuvre lithographié et gravé' (typed), Paris, BNF, Departement des Estampes (shelfmark: Yb3-2774-4)
Claude Ferment, 'Le Caricaturiste Traviès: la vie et l'oeuvre d'un prince du guignon', in 'Gazette des Beaux-Arts', xcix, 1982, pp.63-78
Beatrice Farwell, 'The Charged Image: French Lithographic Caricature 1816-1848', exhibition catalogue, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, 1989, pp.149-168
