Jean Émile LABOUREUR (1877-1943)

Original etching.
Engraved by Laboureur in 1925.
Dimensions of the drawing without margins: 9.7 x 7.1 cm
Signed with the monogram in the plate below right
Reasoned catalog L.297

Jean Émile Laboureur, born in Nantes on August 16, 1877 and died in Kerfalher near Pénestin, in Morbihan, on June 16, 1943, is a French painter, draftsman, engraver, aquafortist, lithographer and illustrator. Author of numerous engravings with chisels, in individual plates or for books, he illustrated nearly eighty books, often by contemporary authors like André Maurois, Jean Giraudoux, Colette, André Gide, Paul-Jean Toulet, Maurice Maeterlinck or François Mauriac. Trained at the Académie Julian, he frequented his contemporaries (Guillaume Apollinaire, Marie Laurencin, Henri de Toulouse-lautrec ...) and created and chaired several associations of independent artists. Painter of genre paintings, animated landscapes or no, still lifes, he also produced some frescoes and sculptures. His works are kept in several national and provincial museums.