DOI issue:
No. 33 (December, 1895)
DOI article:Uzanne, Octave: Modern colour engraving: with notes on some work by Marie Jacounchikoff
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17295#0165
Modern Colour Engraving
and expressive, even a little coarse perhaps, has Mile. Marie Jacounchikoff commenced her
nevertheless fully realised the forceful effect desired, work in aquafortis about 1893, and during the
He has not tried to give us dreams and symbols, past two years, by dint of enthusiastic labour, quite
but to seize reality in all its aspects. He has shown feminine in its ardour, she has produced a half-
us the girls and women of Montmartre, the land- score of plates which give promise of revealing
scapes of the suburbs in all their arid ugliness, the most remarkable temperament of the day in
Nor has he shirked the task of transposing Nature's this branch of art. I should hesitate to declare
her as yet the superior of
her master, Delatre, but she
is his equal in the art of
triturating the copper plate,
and certainly excels him
in her vision of things,
in idealism, in symboli-
cal spirit, and in far-away
reverie.
It seems to me that
Mile. Marie Jacounchikoff
has great gifts as a painter.
Her Effroi, engraved in
tones of green and violet
and blue, has extraordinary
intensity of expression;
while as for her land-
scapes, those called Quie-
tude are something more
than colour- prints. Le
Parfum and La Mort et
les Fleurs suggest an art of
a higher type, and one
wonders how this young
girl's delicate fingers can
have handled the graver
with so much command,
and applied to the plate
with such judgment and
accuracy the resin powder
and the soft varnish, and
produced with such pleas-
ing effect the uneven grains
both with sand-paper and
roulettes of various kinds.
"quietude" from a coloured engraving by marie jacounchikoff Mile. Jacounchikoff bids
fair to lead us very soon
into quite a new field of
colours, giving us skies of greenish hue or laden with colour-printing, and by the end of the century which
chrome, with trees of violet and soil of blue. But has witnessed the transformation and amplification
the general effect of his boldly handled plates, of Leblond's process, it will, perhaps, be possible to
with their clear, firm tints and texture, produces a reproduce with harmony and fidelity not only the
vivid impression of a thoroughly modern and water-colour, but, better still, the oil painting, to
original decoration. Considering that he is scarcely translate its bold reliefs, and convey the meaning of
twenty-five years old, Eugene Delatre may well the brush-work, and the effects of the palette-knife ;
become ere long unapproachable in the under- for with the aid of the acid almost anything may be
standing and practice of his craft. accomplished in this admirable bronze.
and expressive, even a little coarse perhaps, has Mile. Marie Jacounchikoff commenced her
nevertheless fully realised the forceful effect desired, work in aquafortis about 1893, and during the
He has not tried to give us dreams and symbols, past two years, by dint of enthusiastic labour, quite
but to seize reality in all its aspects. He has shown feminine in its ardour, she has produced a half-
us the girls and women of Montmartre, the land- score of plates which give promise of revealing
scapes of the suburbs in all their arid ugliness, the most remarkable temperament of the day in
Nor has he shirked the task of transposing Nature's this branch of art. I should hesitate to declare
her as yet the superior of
her master, Delatre, but she
is his equal in the art of
triturating the copper plate,
and certainly excels him
in her vision of things,
in idealism, in symboli-
cal spirit, and in far-away
reverie.
It seems to me that
Mile. Marie Jacounchikoff
has great gifts as a painter.
Her Effroi, engraved in
tones of green and violet
and blue, has extraordinary
intensity of expression;
while as for her land-
scapes, those called Quie-
tude are something more
than colour- prints. Le
Parfum and La Mort et
les Fleurs suggest an art of
a higher type, and one
wonders how this young
girl's delicate fingers can
have handled the graver
with so much command,
and applied to the plate
with such judgment and
accuracy the resin powder
and the soft varnish, and
produced with such pleas-
ing effect the uneven grains
both with sand-paper and
roulettes of various kinds.
"quietude" from a coloured engraving by marie jacounchikoff Mile. Jacounchikoff bids
fair to lead us very soon
into quite a new field of
colours, giving us skies of greenish hue or laden with colour-printing, and by the end of the century which
chrome, with trees of violet and soil of blue. But has witnessed the transformation and amplification
the general effect of his boldly handled plates, of Leblond's process, it will, perhaps, be possible to
with their clear, firm tints and texture, produces a reproduce with harmony and fidelity not only the
vivid impression of a thoroughly modern and water-colour, but, better still, the oil painting, to
original decoration. Considering that he is scarcely translate its bold reliefs, and convey the meaning of
twenty-five years old, Eugene Delatre may well the brush-work, and the effects of the palette-knife ;
become ere long unapproachable in the under- for with the aid of the acid almost anything may be
standing and practice of his craft. accomplished in this admirable bronze.