Alcide Theophile Robaudi (1850-1928)
[Alcide Robaudi, A. Robaudi]

Pupil of:

Paris art schools

In French pantomimes they have a character called Pierrot, who is practically equivalent to an English stage clown. He is dressed and made-up as a young boy, and his business on the boards is to be as stupid, simple-minded, cunning, and malicious, and above all funny, as a young boy can be in real life. Pierrette, or Mademoiselle Pierrot, like Pierrot, makes up as a young girl, and behaves as mischievously, though not as stupidly, as he. In the picture by Robaudi he shows one of these femine counterparts of the clown, all silk and satin, who returns from a masked ball and rings for admission into her apartment, holding a trophy of the evening in her hand. The artist is an Italian by birth, a pupil of the Paris art schools, and has his studio in Paris. The example which we present of him was first exhibited in the Salon of 1891.

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