Musée du Luxembourg
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The Musée du Luxembourg is a museum at 19 rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Established in 1750, it was initially an art museum located in the east wing of the Luxembourg Palace and
Façade of the museum
The Luxembourg Museum in the east wing of the Palace, c. 1848
André Gill
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André Gill was a French caricaturist. Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guînes at Paris, the son of the Comte de Guînes and Sylvie-Adeline Gosset, Gill studied at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpt
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…In 1861, James Tissot showed The Meeting of Faust and Marguerite, which was purchased by the state for the Luxembourg Gallery. The illustrator André Gill (1840–1885) was named curator of the Musée du Luxembourg on 15 May 1871, in which capacity he reassembled the scattered collections of art and…
André Gill by Nadar (1910)
Caricature of Émile Littré and Charles Darwin depicted as performing monkeys breaking through gullibility ("credulité"), superstitions, errors, and ignorance, by André Gill.
Charles Dickens by André Gill. Hand-colored engraving published in L'Eclipse newspaper, 14 June 1868; Dickens crossing the Channel with his books.
Léon Gambetta, 17 April 1870.