Lucien Marie François Métivet (January 19, 1863 - July 16, 1932) [2] was a French poster artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and author who achieved notoriety during the Belle Epoque.

For example, a February 1896 cartoon sequence entitled Rayons indiscrets ("Indiscreet Rays") consisted of comic silhouettes that played on the concept of the x-ray (a new technology) to audacious effect.

As one art historian has noted, "Métivet here harnessed an absolutely new way of seeing – notably one linked to the medical understanding of the body – to the predilection for fantasy and voyeurism that seems to have been current in the contemporary visual imagination.”[6] In July 1896 the Century Co. ran a contest in Paris for a poster design depicting Napoleon.

In 1898 Métivet also contributed “more than 100 frolicsome drawings"[9] to Arsène Alexandre’s whimsical book about four fairies, Les Fées en train de plaisir and in 1900 he illustrated Michel Provins' Nos petits coeurs (1900).

[1] He published books of his own (including the satirical Jean-Qui-Lit et Snobinet and the later Délurette et Lambine) and in 1926 illustrated the humorous tales of Balzac and Pierre Legendre’s Au Fond du Maelstrom.