Eugène trigoulet (1864 - 1910)
le chemin de la mort (the road to death)
original lithograph from the glorious portfolio …
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Eugène trigoulet (1864 - 1910)
le chemin de la mort (the road to death)
original lithograph from the glorious portfolio "l'estampe moderne", issue #15 (july 1898)
on wove paper
year: 1898
size (sheet): 305 x 405 mm
size (image): 224 x 351 mm
signed "e. Trigoulet" on the plate, bottom right
blind stamp of the publisher, bottom right, out of the image
great condition: minor signs of age and handling
great colours
full margins (not cropped, not trimmed)
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about the collection (l'estampe moderne)
l'estampe moderne appeared in 1897-1899 as a series of 24 monthly fascicles, each containing 4 original lithographs, printed by parisian imprimerie champenois. Many accomplished european art nouveau painters contributed works to this publication, which contained only original prints invented and produced especially for this collection. The publication was edited by charles masson and h. Piazza. Each issue came in a paper cover bearing an original lithograph by alphonse mucha.
each lithograph was accompanied by a tissue containing the details (title of the artwork, name of the artist, etc.) and a short text by a well-known author who inspired the artist (this one being from le chant de la mort, the song of death, aka the dance of death, one of the earliest stories by gustave flaubert and his attempt at romanticism, which he lately abandoned in favour of realism).
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about the artist
eugène flavien trigoulet (1864 - 1910) was a french painter, designer and engraver.
eugène trigoulet was admitted to the beaux-arts in paris in 1882, where he attended the classes of jean-léon gérôme , henri-léopold lévy and albert maignan. He graduated in 1889 and then applied several times in a row for the prix de rome and, after a mention in 1892, finally won the second grand prize for painting in 1893 for a painting based on a theme of samson: he then left for villa medici. In addition to italy, he visited brittany, spain, algeria and bruges, bringing back many landscape paintings and studies.
from the late 1880s, he taught painting classes at the art studios of the city of paris, a position he held until his death.
trigoulet's style "avoids the pitfall of anecdote thanks to a brutal and schematic style indicating the volumes - boats, carts and people - by large dark masses. He powerfully expresses, in brown and black scales, the harsh life of norman and picard fishermen"
(trigoulet, eugène, in "dictionnaire des petits maîtres de la peinture", by gérald schurr and pierre cabanne, paris, éditions de l'amateur, 1996, volume ii, page 469, transl.).
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from the text on the tissue paper, by flaubert:
j'ai tout vu naître et j'ai tout vu périr! a peine si je compte les brèches que chaque génération apporte sur ma faux. Je suis éternelle comme dieu, je suis la nourrice du monde qui l'endort chaque soir dans une couche chérie. Toujours mêmes fètes et même travail. Chaque matin je pars, et chaque soir je reviens, tenant dans un pan de mon linceul toute l'herbe que j'ai fauchée, et puis je la jette au vent.
comme on te respecte, ô mort, comme on t'adore! les papes pour t'implorer te jettent leur tiare: les rois, leur sceptre; les peuples, leurs malheurs; les poètes, leur renommée; et tout cela tremble et s'agenouille\.
english translation:
how many nights, and years, and ages have i journeyed thus! a
witness of the universal birth and of a like decay; innumerable
are the generations i have garnered with my scythe. Like god, i am
eternal! the nurse of earth, i cradle it each night upon a bed
both soft and warm. The same recurring feasts; the same unending
toil! each morning i depart, each evening i return, bearing within
my mantle's ample folds all that my scythe has gathered. And then
i scatter them to the four winds of heaven!
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all men respect thee; nay, adore thee! to invoke thy favour, popes offer thee their triple crowns, and kings their sceptres; peoples, their secret sorrows; poets, their renown. All cringe and kneel before thee, yet thou rushest on over their prostrate forms.
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important:
. The listing is for the original print, in the above mentioned very good / excellent condition.
. The original tissue paper introduction has some folds and tears, especially along the margins, and it will be given as is to the buyer as a gift for confirming the authenticity.
. The cover by mucha is shown as a reference: a high quality picture will be given on request and, eventually, it is possible to purchase the cover on another listing (same to the other three plates of the issue) this piece has an attribution mark,
i am sure that it is completely authentic and take full responsibility for any authenticity
issues arising from misattribution
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