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CHARLES DRANER - OFFICER CARICATURE: Original watercolor, Second Empire. 33574

CHARLES DRANER - OFFICER CARICATURE: Original watercolor, Second Empire. 33574

Caricature of an officer in full-length pose. Signed at the bottom right.
H 26 cm x 19 cm. Presented under glass in a wooden frame, H 28 cm x 21 cm.

France.
Second Empire.
Very good condition.

BIOGRAPHY:
Draner, born Jules Joseph Renard, on November 12, 1833 in Liège, Belgium, and died on August 30, 1926 in Paris 9th, was a Belgian painter, illustrator, and caricaturist.
Coming from an affluent family, his father owned a printing press. Draner showed talent for drawing at a very young age. He started working in a bookstore owned by his family when he was very young. Later, he found employment in the Vieille Montagne Zinc Company and at the same time provided drawings and caricatures to local newspapers including Uylenspiegel founded by Félicien Rops. He used the reversed anagram of his surname, Renard, as his artist name. From 1852 to 1861, he created hundreds of Conté pencil drawings in Liège.
In 1861, he moved to Paris where he collaborated with numerous illustrated Parisian newspapers: Le Charivari, L’Éclipse, Paris-Comique, L'Illustration, Le Monde Illustré, and the Journal pour rire. It was Draner who enabled Mars, a fellow countryman, to publish his first drawings in 1872. In 1879, he succeeded Cham at Le Charivari for drawing Parisian anecdotes under the pseudonym Paf. Henriot succeeded him. According to Guy Vandeloise: "What strikes above all in these hundreds of illustrations that Jules Renard did for his numerous newspapers is the inventiveness, the constantly renewed whimsy that reflects the everyday details of life through small squares of drawings.”
He also designed costumes for theater productions, notably for the operettas of Jacques Offenbach. The Draner collection at the BnF consists of comical costume drawings from Parisian theaters of the 19th century.
Specializing in caricatures of military figures, he illustrated numerous books, particularly on the Siege of Paris. He is best known for his series of 136 color lithographs of caricatures of military figures, "Types militaires: Galerie militaire de toutes les nations."
He passed away on August 30, 1926 in Paris 9th at the age of 92. Draner bequeathed a collection of his drawings to the University of Liège.
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