Le singe et le chat (The Monkey and the Cat)

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Félix Bracquemond
Le singe et le chat (The Monkey and the Cat)
1886

About the Item

Félix Bracquemond (1883-1914) after Gustave Moreau (1826-1898). Le singe et le chat; (The Monkey and the Cat). 1886. Béraldi 796. Image: 11 7/8 x 8 15/16; plate: 15 1/8 x 10 1/2. Illustrations for the Fables of Jean de la Fontaine. Printed on the full sheet of imperial japon paper. Issued by Boussod, Valadon & Co., the year in which Moreau's watercolors of these subjects were exhibited. Signed in pencil. Housed in an archival 20 x 16-inch mat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bracquemond was born in Paris in 1833, and at the age of 15 was apprenticed to a lithographer. Later he became a pupil of Guichard (a former student of Ingres) who taught him to paint, and encouraged him to learn etching. This Bracquemond did by using the Roret manual. He had such a talent for etching that by the time he was twenty he was already producing important prints which reveal him to be an absolute master of the technique. His interest in printmaking never waned. By the end of his life he had created over 900 prints and had been awarded several important prizes, the most noteworthy being Medal of Honor at the Salon of 1884 and a Grand Prize at the “Exposition Universelle” in 1900. Bracquemond will be remembered and admired by connoisseurs for his best prints. He will be remembered also as a person primarily responsible for the revival of interest in the art of the “peintre-graveur” (the artist-printmaker) in the 19th century. For some time prior to Bracquemond’s work, etching had been relegated to use by craftsmen as a reproductive technique. With few exceptions, it was not used by artists as a creative medium. Bracquemond’s role was to master the technique, to make known its qualities, and to introduce it to his contemporaries as a means of making original prints. From his villa near St. Cloud, he encouraged artists (Corot, Daubigny, Degas, Buhot) to use the medium, and spurred the interest of authors (Burty, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers) to support in their writings those societies founded for the purpose of making the public aware of this nearly forgotten art. Kovler Gallery: Forgotten Printmakers of the 19th Century, Chicago, 1967.

Creator:
Félix Bracquemond (1883 - 1914, French)
Creation Year:
1886
Dimensions:
Height: 11.88 in (30.18 cm)Width: 8.94 in (22.71 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Medium:
Etching
Movement & Style:
Symbolist
Period:
Late 19th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Storrs, CT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU33521545413

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Félix Bracquemond

Fe´lix Bracquemond was born in Paris. He was trained in early youth as a trade lithographer, until Guichard, a pupil of Ingres, took him to his studio. His portrait of his grandmother, painted by him at the age of nineteen, attracted The´ophile Gautier's attention at the Salon. He applied himself to engraving and etching about 1853, and played a leading and brilliant part in the revival of the etcher's art in France. Altogether he produced over eight hundred plates, comprising portraits, landscapes, scenes of contemporary life, and bird-studies, besides numerous interpretations of other artist's paintings, especially those of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, Gustave Moreau and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. After having been attached to the Se`vres porcelain factory in 1870, he accepted a post as art manager of the Paris atelier of the firm of Haviland of Limoges. He was connected by a link of firm friendship with E´douard Manet, James McNeill Whistler, and all the other fighters in the impressionist cause, and received all the honors that await the successful artist in France, including the grade of Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1889. Bracquemond was a prominent figure in artistic and literary circles in the second half of the 19th century. He was close to writers such as Edmond de Goncourt and critic Gustave Geffroy, and numbered among his friends Millet and Corot, Henri Fantin-Latour, Degas and the Impressionist circle, and Auguste Rodin. He was one of the more prolific printmakers of his time and he was awarded the grande medaille d'honneur at the Universal Exhibition of 1900. He was also a painter, ceramist, and an innovator in decorative arts. Gabriel Weisberg called him the "molder of artistic taste in his time". Indeed, it was he who recognised the beauty of the Hokusai woodcuts used as packing around a shipment of Japanese china, a discovery which helped change the look of late 19th-century art. He married French Impressionist artist Marie Bracquemond in 1869. He died in Se`vres.