Adolphe Lalauze
Adolphe Lalauze | |
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 Lalauze in 1898 | |
| Born | 8 October 1838 Rive-de-Gier, Loire, France |
| Died | 18 October 1906 (aged 68) Milly-la-Forêt, Essonne, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Engraver |
| Known for | Book illustrations |
Adolphe Lalauze (8 October 1838 – 18 October 1906)[1] was a prolific French etcher who made the illustrations for many books. He won various awards and was made a knight of the Legion of Honour.
Life
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Adolphe Lalauze was born in Rive-de-Gier, Loire, on 8 October 1838.[2] His first job was a Contrôleur de l'Enregistrement.[3] Lalauze worked in this civil service job in Toulouse for some time, then enrolled at the Toulouse École des Beaux-arts. He moved to Paris, where he became a student of Léon Gaucherel. Encouraged by Gaucherel, he took up etching, and first exhibited at the Salon in 1872.[4] At the Salon in 1876 he exhibited twenty-one etchings. These included a series of nine called Le Petit Monde (The Small World) that depicted childhood scenes using his children as models, which won a 3rd class medal. He won a 2nd class medal at the Salon of 1878 for twelve plates illustrating the Histoires ou contes du temps passé by Charles Perrault.[2]
Lalauze illustrated many books. He drew the Frontispiece for Le Bric-à-brac de l'amour (1879) published by Octave Uzanne.[5] This book used revolutionary new photo-mechanical reproduction techniques.[6] He illustrated the Peter Anthony Motteux translation of Don Quixote, first published in 1879.[7] Lalauze made 21 etchings for the 1881 edition of Galland's translation of the Arabian Nights, and these were reproduced in several other editions.[8] He was one of the illustrators of Damase Jouaust's 1882 Petite Bibliothėque artistique (Small Art Library), along with Pierre Edmond Alexandre Hédouin and Émile Boilvin.[3] He created illustrations for Walter Scott's Waverley Novels published in Boston in 1893–94.[9] In 1898 his illustrations in the pure fin de siècle style appeared in Sophie Arnould, actress and wit by Robert B. Douglas.[10]
Adolphe Lalauze was a member of the Société des Artistes Français.[11] He died in Milly-la-Forêt, Essonne in 1906. His son, Alphonse Lalauze, was also an artist.[4]
Work
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Lalauze was known for etchings that depicted children, using his own children as models. He also made etchings that interpreted work by such artists as Charles Bargue, Pieter Codde, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Juan Antonio Gonzalez, Charles Green, Antoine-Jean Gros, Jean-Baptiste Huet, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, David Teniers, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Diego Velázquez.[4] Lalauze made color prints by superimposing etched boards.[3]
Some of his larger plates included "Love Story" after Frank Dicksee, "A Kiss from the Sea" after Hamilton Macallum and "The Entry of Charles V into Antwerp" after Hans Makart. His best work included "The Halt" after Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, etched for the magazine L'Art, and "Portrait of Madame Pompadour" after Maurice Quentin de La Tour, published by the Société des Artistes Français.[2]
During his lifetime he was called "one of the most skillful original etchers of the modern French school."[11] An 1889 book described him as an etcher with extreme facility who composed elegant vignettes and frontispieces.[3] Later, Claude Roger-Marx criticized him for having fallen from interpretive drawing into a "laborious work of illustration" and of multiplying small compositions and vignettes.[12]
Awards and distinctions
[edit]- 1876 Salon Medal 3rd class
- 1878 Salon Medal 2nd class
- 1889 Bronze Medal at the Exposition Universelle
- 1895 Knight of the Legion of Honor,
- 1900 Gold Medal at the Exposition Universelle
Gallery
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Arabian Nights illustration -
Arabian Nights illustration -
Illustration from the Confessions du comte de *** by Charles Pinot Duclos -
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French explorer Prince Henri of Orléans (1867–1901) c. 1897 -
French poet José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905) c. 1897 -
French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet (1824–1910) c. 1897
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References
[edit]- ^ Revue du Vivarais (in French). Imprimerie Humbert. 1912. p. 149. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
... Habile graveur, dessinateur plein de finesse et d'originalité, Lalauze ne tarda pas à se faire un nom. ... Légion d'honneur, vice—président de la société des Amis de l'Eau-forte, mourut pieusement, en sa résidence de Milly (Seinc-et—Oise), le 18 octobre 1906. [... A skillful engraver, a designer full of finesse and originality, Lalauze was quick to make a name for himself. ... Legion of Honor, Vice President of the Society of Friends of Etching, died piously, in his residence of Milly (Seinc-et-Oise), October 18, 1906.]
- ^ a b c Bendann 1891, p. 71.
- ^ a b c d Béraldi 1889, p. 23.
- ^ a b c Adolphe Lalauze: Idbury.
- ^ Silverman 2008, p. 26.
- ^ Silverman 2008, p. 25.
- ^ Frye & Frye 1996, p. 71.
- ^ Yamanaka & Nishio 2006, p. 177.
- ^ Heritage Auctions, Inc. 2010, p. 153.
- ^ Nébrac 2011, p. 200.
- ^ a b Bendann 1891, p. 72.
- ^ Brivet 2008.
Sources
[edit]- "Adolphe Lalauze". Idbury Prints. Archived from the original on 24 August 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - Bendann, David (1891). Modern etchers: short biographical sketches of the leading etchers of the present day, 1891. D. Bendann. p. 71. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- Béraldi, Henri (1889). Les graveurs du XIXe siècle: guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. L. Conquet. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- Brivet, Hughes (31 December 2008). "Adolphe Lalauze (1838–1906)". alceste-art. Archived from the original on 11 February 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
- Frye, Northrop; Frye, Helen Kemp (1996). The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932–1939: 1932–1935. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-0772-8. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- Heritage Auctions, Inc. (2010). Rare Books Auction #6043. Heritage Capital Corporation. ISBN 978-1-59967-464-3. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- Nébrac, Claude-Jean (November 2011). Les petites histoires de l'opéra baroque en France. BoD – Books on Demand France. ISBN 978-2-8106-1950-4. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- Silverman, Willa Z. (2008). The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880–1914. University of Toronto Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-8020-9211-3. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- Yamanaka, Yuriko; Nishio, Tetsuo (2006). The Arabian Nights and Orientalism: Perspectives from East and West. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-85043-768-0. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
External links
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- Works by Adolphe Lalauze at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Adolphe Lalauze at the Internet Archive
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