DOI Heft:
No. 50 (May, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Mourey, Gabriel: Some French illustrated theatre programmes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0249
French Illustrated Programmes
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programme cover by f. vallotton
Steinlen, that powerful artist, that close observer,
that fanciful penciller, who puts so much in-
tensity into even the slightest of his sketches,
designed very few programmes; but all he did
bear the impress of his genius. The example
reproduced here—a Charity Fete at the Palais
Galliera, in aid of the Creche of the XVIth arron-
dissement—is unquestionably one of the best.
How pitiable, these little babies, hooked up in
their long-clothes! An artist with a truly live
and human sense of things can turn a subject
of this kind into a genuine poem of suffering and
neglect.
Willette has done a great number of programmes,
headings, and illustrations for music. Free and
unfettered, his imagination, ever on the alert, flits
about, like a butterfly drunk with sunshine, from
flower to flower, fresh or faded, and endows these
little sketches with a quite original charm. His
drawings for the Coarrier Fran$ais Fetes, the Expo-
sition des Chats, and for L'Automne, are bubbling
over with life.
The programmes of the Theatre de l'CEuvre,
programme covicK by carlos schwabe wanting as they almost always are in precision and
240'
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programme cover by f. vallotton
Steinlen, that powerful artist, that close observer,
that fanciful penciller, who puts so much in-
tensity into even the slightest of his sketches,
designed very few programmes; but all he did
bear the impress of his genius. The example
reproduced here—a Charity Fete at the Palais
Galliera, in aid of the Creche of the XVIth arron-
dissement—is unquestionably one of the best.
How pitiable, these little babies, hooked up in
their long-clothes! An artist with a truly live
and human sense of things can turn a subject
of this kind into a genuine poem of suffering and
neglect.
Willette has done a great number of programmes,
headings, and illustrations for music. Free and
unfettered, his imagination, ever on the alert, flits
about, like a butterfly drunk with sunshine, from
flower to flower, fresh or faded, and endows these
little sketches with a quite original charm. His
drawings for the Coarrier Fran$ais Fetes, the Expo-
sition des Chats, and for L'Automne, are bubbling
over with life.
The programmes of the Theatre de l'CEuvre,
programme covicK by carlos schwabe wanting as they almost always are in precision and
240'