Crafty (illustrator)

Crafty, real name Victor Eugène Géruzez ((1840-05-24)24 May 1840 in Paris – (1906-05-26)26 May 1906 in Saint-Martin-de-Nigelles[1]) was a French comic writer and illustrator, specialising in books about horses and hunting on horseback.

He was the son of Nicolas Eugène Géruzez and Désirée-Antoinette Sales.

He studied under Charles Gleyre, and exhibited at the Salon de Paris from 1877.

He was a contributor to several reviews, newspapers and periodicals including Le Journal Amusant, La Vie Parisienne, L'Éclipse, Graphic, L’Esprit Follet, and Le Journal Pour Rire.

He provided many of the illustrations for Les Chats by Champfleury (1870) and Enfants by Alphonse Daudet (1873).