Édouard Lièvre

Édouard Lièvre: Valtesse de la Bigne's parade bed (around 1875)

Édouard Lièvre (born September 22, 1828 in Blâmont , Département Meurthe , France ; † November 26, 1886 in Paris ) was a French draftsman, painter , graphic artist and cabinet maker ( cabinet maker ).

Life

Lièvre started working in a lithographic printing company in Nancy at a very young age . He then found employment in a foundry near Vaucouleurs , but made drawings of the various products of the foundry in his spare time. In Paris he began with design drawings for bronze foundries, as well as portraits and watercolors. His teacher in the arts of watercolors and gouaches was Théodore Valério . In the 1850s he worked for some time with Thomas Couture . Lièvre showed a watercolor of the main works of couture The Romans in the Era of Decadence in the salon of 1859.

After the French state bought the Sauvageot Collection for the Louvre in the early 1860s , Lièvre produced the illustrations for the book La Collection Sauvageot by Alexandre Sauzay. Further extensive work on art books by various authors followed.

During the last 10 years of his life, Lièvre was a sought-after designer of furniture in the Japanese style. In his workshop, in which his younger brother Justin worked, he created small bronze objects such as vases, flower banks and fragrance dispensers. Some of his furniture is now on display in Paris museums. Other cabinets by the artist achieved top prices at auctions in London and Cologne in 2008 and 2009.

After Lièvre's death, the brothers Georges and Henri Pannier acquired various furniture, bronzes and bronze models as well as design drawings from the estate, which gave them the opportunity to have a wide variety of objects and furniture made for their furniture store L'Escalier de Cristal .

Illustrations for art books

• 1863: Alexandre Sauzay: La Collection Sauvageot . Nobel et Baudry, Paris; 2 volumes.
• 1868: Le Musée universel . 2 volumes, available on Gallica .
• 1866/1869: Félicien de Saulcy : Les Collections célèbres d'œvres d'art dessinées et gravées d'après les originaux . Goupil, Paris; 2 volumes, available on Gallica.
• 1870: Les Arts décoratifs .
• 1870: Le Cours d'ornements .
• 1872: Félix Braquemond: Works of Art in the Collections of England . Holloway, London 1873.
• 1875: Les Maîtres anciens et contemporains .

Works

• Japanisierender tea table rosewood in collaboration with: 1867-1877 Paul Sormani created
• 1877: The parade bed in bronze of the courtesan Valtesse de la Bigne , on display in the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris since 1911 .
• 1877: Japanese cabinet from the Lempertz auction 2009.
• undated: ditto from a London auction in 2008.
• around 1880: Japaneseizing cabinet, in the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale de France , Paris.

Web links

• Website Marc Maison (fr.)