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Sketch of a door, near the Cathedral
Soissons, pencil signed, l/r,
7 7/8" x 4 7/8" plate.
About the Etching: Excellent condition; unframed.
About the Artist: 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
$ 95.00
inclusive of S/H/I*
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