Adolphe Lalauze (8 October 1838 – 18 October 1906) was a prolific French etcher who made the illustrations for many books. He won various awards and was made a knight of the

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Life

Adolphe Lalauze was born in Rive-de-Gier, Loire, on 8 October 1838. His first job was a ''Contrôleur de l'Enregistrement''. Lalauze worked in this civil service job in

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for some time, then enrolled at the Toulouse École des Beaux-arts. He moved to Paris, where he became a student of

Léon Gaucherel Léon Gaucherel (21 May 1816 – 7 January 1886) was a French painter and etcher. Born at Paris, Gaucherel became a pupil of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. His first engravings were to illustrate archeological publications, and next he began to produce e ...

. Encouraged by Gaucherel, he took up etching, and first exhibited at the

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in 1872. At the Salon in 1876 he exhibited twenty-one etchings. These included a series of nine called ''Le Petit Monde'' (The Small World) that depicted childhood scenes using his children as models, which won a 3rd class medal. He won a 2nd class medal at the Salon of 1878 for twelve plates illustrating the ''

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'' by

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. Lalauze illustrated many books. He drew the Frontispiece for ''Le Bric-à-brac de l'amour'' (1879) published by

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. This book used revolutionary new photo-mechanical reproduction techniques. He illustrated the

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translation of ''

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'', first published in 1879. Lalauze made 21 etchings for the 1881 edition of Galland's translation of the '' Arabian Nights'', and these were reproduced in several other editions. He was one of the illustrators of Damase Jouaust's 1882 ''Petite Bibliothėque artistique'' (Small Art Library), along with

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and Émile Boilvin. He created illustrations for

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's ''

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'' published in Boston in 1893–94. In 1898 his illustrations in the pure ''fin de siècle'' style appeared in ''

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, actress and wit'' by Robert B. Douglas. Adolphe Lalauze was a member of the

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. He died in

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, Essonne in 1906. His son, Alphonse Lalauze, was also an artist.

Work

Adolphe Lalauze - La Lecon de Dessin 1880

Lalauze was known for etchings that depicted children, using his own children as models. He also made etchings that interpreted work by such artists as

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, Juan Antonio Gonzalez, Charles Green, Antoine-Jean Gros,

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, David Teniers,

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, and

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. Lalauze made color prints by superimposing etched boards. Some of his larger plates included "Love Story" after

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, "A Kiss from the Sea" after

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and "The Entry of Charles V into Antwerp" after

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. His best work included "The Halt" after

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, etched for the magazine ''L'Art'', and "Portrait of Madame Pompadour" after

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, published by the

. During his lifetime he was called "one of the most skillful original etchers of the modern French school." An 1889 book described him as an etcher with extreme facility who composed elegant vignettes and frontispieces. Later,

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criticized him for having fallen from interpretive drawing into a "laborious work of illustration" and of multiplying small compositions and vignettes.

Awards and distinctions

* 1876 Salon Medal 3rd class * 1878 Salon Medal 2nd class * 1889 Bronze Medal at the Exposition Universelle * 1895 Knight of the Legion of Honor, * 1900 Gold Medal at the Exposition Universelle

Gallery

File:AdolpheLalauze-arabian-nights1.jpg, Arabian Nights illustration File:1001-nights-burton-v3-p371.jpg, Arabian Nights illustration File:DuclosConfessionsCount***.jpg, Illustration from the ''Confessions du comte de ***'' by Charles Pinot Duclos File:Pierre-Charles-Henri Fauvel by Adolphe Lalauze.jpg, Pierre-Charles-Henri Fauvel 1892 File:Henri d'Orléans (1867-1901).jpg, French explorer

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(1867–1901) c. 1897 File:José-Maria de Heredia (French poet) by Adolphe Lalauze.jpg, French poet

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(1842–1905) c. 1897 File:Emmanuel Frémiet.jpg, French sculptor

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(1824–1910) c. 1897

References

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