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


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