Paul Renouard

A suspicious woman is brought before the London police court. The life of convicts at Wormwood Scrubs Prison. Dancing girls in the theatre, Irish children carrying peat for a small wage. Workers building the dome of the Grand Palace for the Paris World's Fair of 1900. The French officer Alfred Dreyfus before his judges, writer Émile Zola at his trial. The prominent composer Franz Liszt at the piano or the famous Madame Sarah Bernhardt in her dressing room. The French painter and illustrator Charles Paul Renouard has drawn countless of such often topical sceneries or portraits of well-known personalities. Scenes from the everyday life of ordinary people, from courtrooms and parliaments, from big events, from celebrations, parades and processions in European cities. The black-and-white pencil drawings were mostly published in the high-circulation newspapers and magazines of the time, such as the Paris Illustrated or the British weekly magazine The Graphic.