Caricature: 'Le Docteur Carrel, de New York' by Georges Villa, c. 1913 (Wikimedia Commons)

period print · 1913

type:period print

year:1913

citation:Villa G [attr.]. 'Le Docteur Carrel, de New York.' Caricature, c. 1913. Wikimedia Commons. File: Caricature Alexis Carrel "Le Docteur Carrel, de New York".JPG. Public domain.

LINK

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caricature_Alexis_Carrel_%22Le_Docteur_Carrel,_de_New_York%22.JPG

SUMMARY

Caricature of Alexis Carrel attributed to French caricaturist Georges Villa, circa 1913, held on Wikimedia Commons under the file name 'Caricature Alexis Carrel "Le Docteur Carrel, de New York".JPG'. The Commons record carries a public domain tag. Georges Villa (1855–1940) died in 1940; under both French law (70 years post mortem auctoris = public domain since 2010) and US law (pre-1928 publication) the work is unambiguously in the public domain. The caricature dates to approximately 1913, within a year of Carrel's 1912 Nobel Prize, and its subtitle ('Le Docteur Carrel, de New York') reflects his position at the Rockefeller Institute. The source file reports 2989x4379 pixels; the local archive copy was resized to 1092x1600 on 2026-07-08 for the current 1600px long-side cap.

NOTES

Georges Villa (1855–1940) was a French caricaturist who contributed to numerous satirical publications in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The caricature of Carrel as “Le Docteur Carrel, de New York” was almost certainly produced in the context of Carrel’s Nobel Prize in 1912, which made him the most celebrated French-born scientist of the moment and a natural subject for the Parisian caricature press. The subtitle “de New York” refers to his position at the Rockefeller Institute, which at the time was popularly described as “in New York.” The image is the earliest of the three media assets in this bundle and captures the moment of Carrel’s maximum positive celebrity — before the eugenics controversy of the 1930s and the Vichy collaboration of the 1940s.