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class="illustration_box"> <img src="../../images/edu_study_guide/emile_bayards_cosette.gif" alt="Emile Bayard's Cosette illustration" width="183" height="255"> </div> <div class="illustration_caption"> Emile Bayard<br/> (1837 - 1891) </div> </div> <div class="right_side_text"> <p>Emile Bayard was Victor Hugo's favorite illustrator, famous in his own lifetime for his brilliant portraits of Fantine, Éponine, Valjean and Javert, but best known today by people all over the world for "his" Cosette, used originally on the sleeve of the French 'Les Mis' record in 1980, and now famous as the <em>Les Misérables</em> logo.</p> <p>Bayard, a prolific lithographer for magazines and books (he illustrated the works of Edmond About - then a fashionable novelist, almost as well - known as Hugo himself), was one of the leaders of the nineteenth-century academic painting school, somewhat unjustly known as "le style pompier".</p> <p>With infinite attention to detail, Emile Bayard worked for months on huge paintings, of which the best known are "After the Battle of Waterloo" and "Sedan 1870". His real talent, however, lay in his abilities as a brilliant portraitist. In the tradition of the time, he also used his drawing skills to rework original sketches by explorers and travellers, sometimes even transforming pictures of exotic places into lithographs. A close friend of Honorè Daumier and cartoonists such as Paul Gavarni, Henri Monnier, Alfred Grevin, Jean-Louis Forain and Emmanuel Poiré (better known as Caran d'Ache), he wrote about their work about spotting fakes, and identifying antiques.</p> <p>Quintessentially a wealthy Parisian "society painter" with pupils and his own atelier, Emile Bayard showed a remarkable understanding of Victor Hugo's work as seen in his illustrations of the cast of characters in Les Misérables.</p> </div> </div> <div id="lowerAddBar"> <a href="http://www.lesmis.com/pages/book_now/uk_box_office.htm"><img src="../../images/blank.gif" width="760px" height="45px" border="0"></a></div> <div id="tsandcs">©2009 Cameron Mackintosh Overseas Limited. 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