Artist

A. Collette

A. Collette is a Romanticism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

A. Collette had a thing for beards. Not the fancy kind, but the real, scraggly, lived-in ones. In the 1840s, they turned that obsession into prints—sharp little portraits of men’s facial hair that double as social satire. You’ll find their work in the *H Beard Print Collection*, like the 1849 piece where a bushy beard takes up half the page, smirking at the viewer. If you like odd corners of art history, tap into their prints; it’s beard appreciation with a wink.

Works by A. Collette

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.