Artist

Alexandre Laucauchie

Alexandre Laucauchie is a Romanticism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

You’ll find this 19th-century printmaker elbow-deep in satirical ink, poking fun at Parisian street life with the same mischief a cartoonist brings to memes today. The punchline? His prints were so sharp they got him fined more than once, real talk for an artist who turned gossip into engravings.

Start with H Beard Print Collection, a set of street scenes where a fishwife’s glare could shut down a whole boulevard.

Works by Alexandre Laucauchie

Collections represented

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.