ALBERT ROBIDA
French illustrator (1848-1926)
Biography:
Albert Robida was born in Compiègne (France) in 1848. He started as sollicitor but soon joint Journal Amusant as illustrator. He worked in several magazines before founding his own, La Caricature, with Georges Decaux. He collaborated with Petit Français illustré. From 1875 to 1879 he travelled around Europe and composed his series Vieilles Villes, a kind of over-illustrated turistic brochure. His imagination seems perfeft to illustrate books like Arabian Nights.
Works illsutrated by Robida:
Mille et une nuits, 1945.
F. Rabelais, Oeuvres.
Walter Scott, Quentin Durward .
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver, Laurens, 1904.
G. Toudouze, François Ier, 1909.