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From Dor\u00e9 (see last week’s post<\/a>) to Robida, and a set of drawings I hadn’t seen before. Albert Robida is best known today for the illustrations from his books which present a humorous look at life in the future<\/a>. But he was also a working artist, and enough of an expert on medieval French architecture to oversee the recreation of Old Paris<\/a> that filled a bank of the Seine for the Exposition\u00a0Universelle of 1900.<\/p>\n Robida’s architectural interest is to the fore in many of his illustrations for Balzac’s droll tales; where Dor\u00e9 often renders buildings as blurred silhouettes, Robida offers authentic detail. He’s also a match for Dor\u00e9 when it comes to comic grotesquery, as these stories demand, while adding anthropomorphic touches of his own.<\/p>\n As before, this is a small selection from a large quantity of illustrations. This time the book is in two volumes which may be browsed here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Elsewhere on { feuilleton } Previously on { feuilleton } From Dor\u00e9 (see last week’s post) to Robida, and a set of drawings I hadn’t seen before. Albert Robida is best known today for the illustrations from his books which present a humorous look at life in the future. But he was also a working artist, and enough of an expert on medieval French architecture … Continue reading “Albert Robida\u2019s Contes Drolatiques”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,30,42],"tags":[2767,9256],"class_list":["post-18565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","tag-albert-robida","tag-honore-de-balzac"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4Pr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"robida02.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/robida02.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Albert Robida\u2019s Vieux Paris<\/a>
\n\u2022 The End of Books, 1894<\/a>
\n\u2022 Le Vingti\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle by Albert Robida<\/a>
\n\u2022 La Vie \u00c9lectrique by Albert Robida<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"