47. Jean-Emile Laboureur
(1877-1943)
Le 14 Juillet au Village (July 14, Bastille Day, in the Village)

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Laboureur, Le 14 Juillet

Le 14 Juillet au Village (July 14, Bastille Day, in the Village)

Engraving with stipple and roulette, 1925, Godefroy 292 iii/iii, 143 x 164 mm.. Fine impression with light plate tone on chine-volant with large margins, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 100 (Godefroy says 174, but the inscription here is clearly 100). Laboureur was certainly the most important artist to emerge from Lepère’s tutelage, but, strong artistic personality that he was, what he learned from Lepère was technique, not style. There is little to compare in the artistic visions of the two men, but Laboureur learned to master the craft of whatever technique he used and, in that emulated his teacher. There is almost always a light-hearted, if not actually comic, aspect to Laboureur’s images, the subjects exaggerated in odd ways and yet always recognizable as what they are. He was neither a romantic nor a realist nor an impressionist, but clearly a "modern" artist who saw the world with an acerbic wit.

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