| (...) Consecrated to the arts of books and consequently to the different modes of engravings of which the book is illustrated, Room I is of a very strong interest. (...) In the center of the room, a bronze Venus of Maillol (...) advances in gesture of offering his two hands loaded one and the other of an apple. New Paris, she probably seeks around her to offer them in the batch of engravers that surrounds it. (...)
She will also be able to choose between the illustrators Flaubert Dunoyer de Segonzac, for sentimental education, Laprade for Madame Bovary, Lombard for Salammbô, Girieud for the Temptation of Saint Anthony, Crafted for the correspondence where he carved in the wood the silhouette of each of the correspondents. (...) |