Traité de Lithographie Artistique

Henri Fantin-Latour|Edouard Duchâtel|Lemercier & Cie.|Charles-Marie Dulac|Paul Maurou|Louis-Eugène Pirodon|Henri Patrice Dillon|Camille Lefèvre|E. Bertrand|Alexandre Lunois|Léonce Bénédite|Charles Lorilleux et Cie.|Hippolyte Fauchon|Hermann Vogel|Félix-Hilaire Buhot

1893 · Lithographs · Drawings and Prints

Traité de Lithographie Artistique — Henri Fantin-Latour|Edouard Duchâtel|Lemercier & Cie.|Charles-Marie Dulac|Paul Maurou|Louis-Eugène Pirodon|Henri Patrice Dillon|Camille Lefèvre|E. Bertrand|Alexandre Lunois|Léonce Bénédite|Charles Lorilleux et Cie.|Hippolyte Fauchon|Hermann Vogel|Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Lithography was invented in the 1790s by Alois Senefelder in Germany but, over the next century, became the domain of commercial and scientific printers. This French treatise of 1893 encouraged artists to return to the medium and the author, Edouard Duchâtel, listed eleven artist-contributors on the cover. Léonce Bénédicte, director of the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris, wrote the introduction, and the illustrated text describes how to work directly on the stone and use various transfer papers. Two years later, a major Paris exhibition of 1895, mounted to celebrate the centennial of the technique’s invention, devoted a major section to prints by contemporary artists.

Artist
Henri Fantin-Latour|Edouard Duchâtel|Lemercier & Cie.|Charles-Marie Dulac|Paul Maurou|Louis-Eugène Pirodon|Henri Patrice Dillon|Camille Lefèvre|E. Bertrand|Alexandre Lunois|Léonce Bénédite|Charles Lorilleux et Cie.|Hippolyte Fauchon|Hermann Vogel|Félix-Hilaire Buhot
Date
1893
Medium
Lithographs
Department
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1977

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