Dr. Alexis Carrel - Le Chanteclair caricature, February 1914 (Wellcome Collection L0027788)
period print · 1914
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SUMMARY
Georges Villa caricature of Alexis Carrel, captioned 'Le Docteur Carrel, de New-York' and published in the French illustrated magazine Le Chanteclair in February 1914, held by the Wellcome Collection under accession number L0027788. Wellcome Collection publishes this item under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), which permits reproduction with attribution. The original publication date of February 1914 places the underlying period print firmly in the public domain under both UK and US copyright law regardless of the CC BY licence. The image was sourced via the Wellcome IIIF endpoint at iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0027788/full/full/0/default.jpg; the source file reports 4109x5984 pixels, and the local archive copy was resized to 1098x1600 on 2026-07-08 for the current 1600px long-side cap.
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Le Chanteclair was a French illustrated satirical and cultural magazine published in Paris in the early twentieth century. The February 1914 issue included Georges Villa’s caricature of Alexis Carrel, shortly after his 1912 Nobel Prize, as he was at the height of his scientific celebrity in Europe. The Wellcome Collection holds this image and has digitised it as part of its historical medical portrait holdings. The Wellcome licence for this item is CC BY 4.0; attribution should be given to Wellcome Collection. The original publication in 1914 makes any copyright claim moot under both UK and US public-domain rules for the underlying period print.