RENOUARD CHARLES PAUL 1845-1924.

 

Renouard printmaker, draughtsman, illustrator and painter was born in France (Cour-Cheverny, Loir et Cher) 1845 November the 5th; he died in Paris 1924 the 2nd.

After working as a house decorator he entered the studio of Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils at the "Ecole des Beaux-Arts" Paris in 1868; they worked together on the decoration of the Paris Opera where Renouard executed some ceilings (1875).

The first etchings were of the ballet, he sketched both audience and performers in the Paris Opera and in London too (Royal Theatre Durylane) 1890.

Renouard characterised his plates as "snapshots", but" his etchings are not prompted by proposes foreign to art. They are the expression of the artist's delight in fixing rapid gestures and movements."

He published in 1852 a luxury album containing 30 etchings entitled "Opera".

Renouard first exhibited at the "Salon" in Paris in 1877, having submitted pen and ink sketches of actors. He became a member of the "Société des artistes Français" and of the "Société Nationale des Beaux-arts".

Gold medal in 1889 (Exposition Universelle) and in 1900.

He executed a series of pencil portraits of British academicians entitled "Royal Academia" in 1885, which was published like much of his early works in the "Graphic". He worked for several newspaper such as Illustration, Paris illustré and Graphic.

He is a true graphic chronicler of his time. For instance, he executed 150 illustrations for the "Défenseurs de la Justice dans l'affaire Dreyfus".

During a journey in the United States he draught sketches on the transatlantic and his purposes on the American politic world are not the less interesting part of his work.

But his desire to understand the frailties of humanity, and the expression of a delicate sensibility and compassion are more powerfully expressed in his works illustrating the war; using harmonious distribution of light effects and "pointillist" effects, fixing gestures and movements so quickly that pain delight or fright seemed to be instantly caught and delivered to spectators attracted in a new dimension.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY :

Beraldi : "Graveurs du XIXième" p. 186.

Leipnick : "History of French etching." London 1924. p. 157.

Jamin : "Paul Renouard" (Print. collect. quart IX, 1922)

Vaunois : "Paul Renouard" Blois 1922.

 

 

AVAILABLE PRINTS :

 

" Le bas de Montyon " numéroté 16/100.

Dimensions : Plate 64,5 * 44,5 , subject 56 * 35 , sheet 85 * 61 cm.

Lithograph printed in blue, title and monogram in the plate.

Signed in blue pencil lower left Paul Renouard.

 

" Le haut de Montyon, c'est là que s'est arrêté le mascaret allemand" numéroté 10/100.

Dimensions : Plate 64,5 * 45 , subject 56 * 35,5 , sheet 85 * 61 cm.

Lithograph printed in blue, title and monogram in the plate.

Signed in blue pencil lower left Paul Renouard.

 

" Le fer même vibrait" numérotée 13/100.

Dimensions : Plate 49 * 64,5 , sheet 85 * 61 cm.

Lithograph, monogram in the plate, signed in pencil lower left Paul Renouard.

 

"Cinq minutes avant l'attaque".

Dimensions : Subject 57 * 64,5 , sheet 85 * 61 cm.

Lithograph signed in pencil lower rightPaul Renouard.

 

L'Arc de Triomphe lors de la victoire de 1918.

Dimensions : Subject 57 * 43 ,plate 64,5 * 49,5 , sheet 85 * 61 cm.

Lithograph, signed in pencil lower left Paul Renouard.

 

La place de la Concorde lors de la victoire de 1918.

Dimensions : Subject 57 * 44 , sheet 85 * 61 cm.

Lithograph signed in pencil lower right Paul Renouard.

 

" Les guetteurs".

Dimensions : Subject 58 * 43,5 , sheet 85 * 61 cm.

Lithograph signed in pencil lower right Paul Renouard.

 

" L'arrivée des émigrants au cirque de Paris". Numérotée 35/100.

Dimensions : Subject 53 * 39,5 , sheet 85 * 61 cm.

Lithograph, monogram in the plate, signed in pencil lower left Paul Renouard.

 

" Le marchand de salades".

Dimensions : Subject 57 * 43 , sheet 85 * 61 cm.

Lithograph, signed in pencil lower left Paul Renouard.

 

 

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