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Huard, Charles (French)
Paris, 1875 - Poncey-Sur-L'Ignon, 1965
Description: Sketch of a door, near the Cathedral Soissons,
pencil signed, l/r, 7 7/8"
x 4 7/8"
plate.
Condition: Excellent
Biography: Painter, draughtsman, engraver, caricaturist
and illustrator. This artist,
little known
today, had gone famous to the
beginning of
the century for often wild caricatures
on
Paris and the province which
it published
in the newspapers of the Beautiful
Time (the
amusing Newspaper, the Smile,
the Laughter,
the Cock-a-doodle-doo...), like
by many illustrations
of books (Figures of the Vendée
of George
Clémenceau...). In 1910, the
Conard editor
entrusts to him the illustration
of forty
volumes of complete Works of
Honore de Balzac,
at a rate of thirty to forty
drawings per
volume, novels and confused plays!
In the
four years space, Charles Huard
draws tens
of illustrations to the Indian
ink, generally
directly on wood, without model.
All these
drawings were then engraved by
Pierre Gusman
(1862-1942). If Charles Huard
is not the
first illustrator of works of
Honore de Balzac
- large artists such as Honore
Daumier, Gustave
Doré, Gavarni or Henry Monnier
preceded it
-, it occupies nevertheless a
particular
place by the extent of the task
which it
achieved. Charles Huard also
left us several
accounts of voyages illustrated
on New -
York, London, Venice and Berlin
(New - York
as I saw, Paris, Province, Étranger,
hundred
drawings... in 1906), of the
watercolours
and the etchings of the Mediterranean
South,
of Normandy, of England and Holland
as well
as tables (series of Gift Quichotte).
Sources:
Charles Huard (1874-1965), Illustrator
of
Balzac, Painter and humorist
of the Beautiful
Time, catalogues exposure, Paris,
the House
of Balzac, April-July 1969, the
artistic
Presses, 1969. OSTERWALDER (Marcus),
Dictionary
of the illustrators (1800-1914),
Hubschmid
& Bouret, 1983
$ 195.00
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