Lecture 4: Jean Émile Laboureur

4.1. André Dunoyer de Segonzac, portrait of Jean-Émile Laboureur. Reproduced from Marcel Valotaire, Laboureur (Paris: Henri Babou, 1929), frontispiece.
4.2. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting a couple caressing (on verso page of opening), in Roger Allard, L'Appartement des jeunes filles (Paris: Camille Bloch, 1919), frontispiece. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.3. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting a couple at tea, printed by A. Vernant, in Valery Larbaud, Beauté, mon beau souci, with text printed by Robert Coulouma (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1920), p. 72. Spencer Collection, New York Public Library. Reproduced by permission of the Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
4.4. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting a crocodile-skin valise, printed by A. Vernant, in Valery Larbaud, Beauté, mon beau souci, with text printed by Robert Coulouma (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1920), p. 139. Spencer Collection, New York Public Library. Reproduced by permission of the Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
4.5. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignettes depicting native tribesmen (left) and Chief Ampanani (right), in Évariste Parny, Chansons madécasses (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1920), title page and p. 11. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.6. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting Bougainville waving to the natives, in Denis Diderot, Supplément au voyage de Bougainville (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1921). Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.7. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting Silbermann after a fight, in Jacques de Lacretelle, Silbermann (Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, 1925), opposite p. 68. Collection of Dr. Jack Eisert, Tarrytown, N.Y. Reproduced by permission of Dr. Eisert.
4.8. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting Silbermann overhearing a conversation, in Jacques de Lacretelle, Silbermann (Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, 1925), opposite p. 136. Collection of Dr. Jack Eisert, Tarrytown, N.Y. Reproduced by permission of Dr. Eisert.
4.9. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting a woman's head, in Remy de Gourmont, Le songe d'une femme (Paris: Camille Bloch, 1925), frontispiece. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.10. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting a forest scene, in Remy de Gourmont, Le songe d'une femme (Paris: Camille Bloch, 1925), p. 65. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.11. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting pots of jam, in Remy de Gourmont, Le songe d'une femme (Paris: Camille Bloch, 1925), p. 31. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.12. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting a theatrical troupe in the rain, in Colette, L'Envers du music hall (Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1926), frontispiece. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.13. Jean Émile Laboureur, headpiece for "On arrive, on répète" depicting actors on stage, in Colette, L'Envers du music hall (Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1926), p. 9. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.14. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting fairy-tale characters, in Charles Perrault, Contes (Paris: Robert Hilsum, 1928), p. 9. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.15. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting soldiers at their morning toilet, in André Maurois, Les silences du Colonel Bramble (Paris: Le Livre, 1926), p. 167. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.16. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting Private Scott destroyed by a shell, in André Maurois, Les silences du Colonel Bramble (Paris: Le Livre, 1926), p. 75. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.17. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting Private Biggs approaching a German trench, in André Maurois, Les discours du docteur O'Grady (Paris: Le Livre, Émile Chamontin, 1929), p. 112. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.18. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting Colonel Bramble and Aurelle, in André Maurois, Les silences du Colonel Bramble (Paris: Le Livre, 1926), p. 135. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.19. Jean Émile Laboureur, headpiece depicting Wotton speaking to Hallward, in Oscar Wilde, Le portrait de Dorian Gray, translated by Edmond Jaloux and Félix Frapereau (Paris: Le Livre, Émile Chamontin, 1928), p. 1. New York Public Library. Reproduced by permission of the General Research Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
4.20. Jean-Émile Laboureur, headpiece depicting Dorian Gray in Covent Garden market, in Oscar Wilde, Le portrait de Dorian Gray, translated by Edmond Jaloux and Félix Frapereau (Paris: Le Livre, Émile Chamontin, 1928), p. 125. New York Public Library. Reproduced by permission of the General Research Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
4.21. Jean Émile Laboureur, headpiece depicting Dorian Gray killing himself, in Oscar Wilde, Le portrait de Dorian Gray, translated by Edmond Jaloux and Félix Frapereau (Paris: Le Livre, Émile Chamontin, 1928), p. 341. New York Public Library. Reproduced by permission of the General Research Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
4.22. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting the seeming assassination of Biondetta, in Jacques Cazotte, The Devil in Love (London: Heinemann; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), p. 48. Reproduced from the original in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Elisha Whittelsey Collection, Department of Drawings and Prints.
4.23. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting Sterne's purchase of gloves, in Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: Golden Cockerell Press, 1928), opposite p. 69. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.24. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette and plate (on facing pages) depicting Gilpin at the calenderer's gate, executed by Lucien Serre et Cie., in William Cowper, The Diverting History of John Gilpin (Paris: Ronald Davis, 1931). New York Public Library. Reproduced by permission of the General Research Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
4.25. Jean Émile Laboureur, "La fille au litre," in The New Keepsake for the Year 1921, edited by Marcel Boulestin and Laboureur (London and Paris: Chelsea Book Club for X. M. Boulestin, 1921), p. 35. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.26. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting a scene before an elevator, in Jean Valmy Baysse, Tableau des grands magasins (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1925), opposite p. 55. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.27. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting a department store at Christmas, in Jean Valmy Baysse, Tableau des grands magasins (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1925), opposite table of contents. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.28. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting a dancer in a bar, in Nina Toye and A. H. Adair, Petits et grands verres: choix des meilleurs cocktails, translated by Laboureur under the pseudonym of Ph. Le Huby (Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1927). Reproduced from the original in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Drawings and Prints, Gift of Harold Bell.
4.29. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting a Portuguese hotel dining room, in Valery Larbaud, 200 chambres, 200 salles de bain (Le Haye: J. Gondrexon, 1927). Reproduced from the original in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Drawings and Prints, Rogers Fund.
4.30. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting Camuset's great-uncle suffering a stroke at table, in Georges Camuset, Les sonnets du docteur (Dijon: Éditions du Raisin, 1926), p. 52. Reproduced from the original in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Drawings and Prints, Gift of Harold Bell.
4.31. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting Lafcadio committing a murder, in André Gide, Lafcadio, vol. 5 (1930) of Les caves du Vatican, printed by L'Imprimerie Aulard and L'Imprimerie Rigal (Paris: Gallimard [with monogram of Nouvelle Revue Française], 1929 30), frontispiece. New York Public Library. Reproduced by permission of the General Research Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
4.32. Jean Émile Laboureur, plate depicting a beekeeper and his hives, in Maurice Maeterlinck, La vie des abeilles (Paris: L'Artisan du Livre, 1930), frontispiece. Collection of Dr. Jack Eisert, Tarrytown, N.Y. Reproduced by permission of Dr. Eisert.
4.33. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting a queen termite and her consort, in Maurice Maeterlinck, La vie des termites (Paris: L'Artisan du Livre, 1930), p. 89. Collection of Dr. Jack Eisert, Tarrytown, N.Y. Reproduced by permission of Dr. Eisert.
4.34. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting Suzanne aboard an ocean liner, printed by A. Jourde, in Jean Giraudoux, Suzanne et le Pacifique (Paris: Les Cent Une [Société de femmes bibliophiles], 1927), p. 62. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.35. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting Suzanne and the island creatures, printed by A. Jourde, in Jean Giraudoux, Suzanne et le Pacifique (Paris: Les Cent Une [Société de femmes bibliophiles], 1927), p. 101. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.36. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting Suzanne in an idyllic setting, printed by A. Jourde, in Jean Giraudoux, Suzanne et le Pacifique (Paris: Les Cent Une [Société de femmes bibliophiles], 1927), p. 180. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.37. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting the rescue of Suzanne, printed by A. Jourde, in Jean Giraudoux, Suzanne et le Pacifique (Paris: Les Cent Une [Société de femmes bibliophiles], 1927), p. 244. Reproduced by permission of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
4.38. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting cigarettes, holder, ashtray, and matchbox, in Paul Jean Toulet, Les contrerimes (Paris: H.-M. Petiet, 1930), p. 87. Spencer Collection, New York Public Library. Reproduced by permission of the Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
4.39. Jean Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting an elephant in Paris, in Paul Jean Toulet, Les contrerimes (Paris: H.-M. Petiet, 1930), p. 33. Reproduced by permission of the Spencer Collection, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
4.40. Jean-Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting a young girl awaking, in Paul Jean Toulet, Les contrerimes (Paris: H.-M. Petiet, 1930), p. 30.