Remords (Remorse): Costume de Chasse

This wood engraving from a fashion gazette depicts a well-dressed hunter in a moment of moral reckoning. The figure stands over slaughtered game and a weeping child, his raised rifle and confident posture contrasting sharply with the title's suggestion of guilt. The composition draws on centuries of European satirical print tradition—the visual irony and social commentary that Hogarth, Gillray, and Daumier pioneered. By 1920, such imagery appeared in fashion magazines as social critique wrapped in elegance. The stark black outlines and economical hatching technique characteristic of woodcut give the scene immediacy. Here, luxury hunting attire becomes the vehicle for questioning the ethics of sport and class privilege, a recurring theme in print satire that would influence modern cartooning and graphic narrative.