André Devambez was a head of studio at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and an Officer of the Légion d’Honneur.

His drawings and paintings often depict bustling crowds, as in The Demonstration. He aimed to depict everyday life and inventions. He wrote and illustrated Auguste has a Bad Character ( Auguste a mauvais caractère) and illustrated many other books, including Zola’s The Coqueville Fête ( La fête à Coqueville), Claude Farrère’s The Condemned ( Les condamnés à mort) and Zola’s The Social Poverty of Women ( La misère sociale de la femme); and his drawings appeared in publications such as Le Rire, Le Figaro Illustré and L’Illustration.