page_title: André Gill
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: André Gill / Death
caption_attribution_description: Portrait d'André Gill/
context_page_description: André Gill was a French caricaturist. Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guînes at Paris, the son of the Comte de Guînes and Sylvie-Adeline Gosset. Gill studied at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. He adopted the pseudonym André Gill in homage to his hero, James Gillray. Gill began illustrating for Le Journal Amusant. Gill, however, became known for his work for the weekly four-sheet newspaper La Lune, edited by Francis Polo, in which he drew portraits for a series entitled The Man of the Day. He worked for La Lune from 1865 to 1868. When La Lune was banned, he worked for the periodical L'Éclipse from 1868 to 1876. Gill also drew for famous periodical Le Charivari.
context_section_description: Gill succumbed in 1880 to mental illness and died five years later, May Day, 1885, at the asylum of Charenton with only Emile Cohl, friend and colleague, at his side.  His other friends and the public overall, had deserted him. Charenton asylum had famously served as the home of the Marquis de Sade.
  The small Rue André Gill (perpendicular to the Rue des Martyrs), in the Montmartre district of Paris, is named after him.  His bust is situated at the end of the street.  In 2000, the bust was found reversed; it has since been restored.  The Hotel André Gill is also located on this street.
caption: Portrait of Gill by Émile Cohl, 1879.
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