GUTH

French public life takes centre stage in the portraits Jean Baptiste Guth signed GUTH for Vanity Fair. Guth (1855–1922) was ...

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French public life takes centre stage in the portraits Jean Baptiste Guth signed GUTH for Vanity Fair. Guth (1855–1922) was a French artist whose magazine work brought politicians, writers, diplomats and royalty before British readers: Anatole France, Pierre Loti, Alphonse Daudet and Edmond Rostand appear beside presidents, ministers and ambassadors, and portraits connected with the Dreyfus affair catch a sharply contested moment. Queen Victoria, the Russian tsar and Li Hongzhang widen the stage, while cyclists and the motoring pioneer de Dion show newer enthusiasms. His signature distinguishes his work from that of other Vanity Fair artists, whose names are sometimes applied loosely.

French public life takes centre stage in the portraits Jean Baptiste Guth signed GUTH for Vanity Fair. Guth (1855–1922) was a French artist whose magazine work brought politicians, writers, diplomats and royalty before British readers: Anatole France, Pierre Loti, Alphonse Daudet and Edmond Rostand appear beside presidents, ministers and ambassadors, and portraits connected with the Dreyfus affair catch a sharply contested moment. Queen Victoria, the Russian tsar and Li Hongzhang widen the stage, while cyclists and the motoring pioneer de Dion show newer enthusiasms. His signature distinguishes his work from that of other Vanity Fair artists, whose names are sometimes applied loosely.

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