JACOMET Daniel

After Edgar DEGAS ( 1834-1917 )

" The Ballerina "

Original Jacomet stencil.
Signed in the plate.
Size without marges : 39x26cm.

Edgar Degas

1834-1917

Impressionist painter among the most famous.

Son of an aristocratic family from Paris, he studied at Louis-le-Grand High School and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Very quickly, it is part of literary cafes, cenacles and is friends with many artists. In 1873, with Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissaro, Berthe Morisot and Ludovic-Napoleon Lepic, he founded "the cooperative society of painters, sculptors, and engravers". Their first exhibition will give birth to "the impressionism ». Degas sketches Parisian life in its entirety, as well as opera singers, horse racing, laundresses or coffee terraces ... In 1881, he presents the sculpture "The little dancer of fourteen" at the sixth exhibition impressionists. If it was a scandal at the time, it is now known worldwide. Edgar Degas, one of the greatest artists who marks the History of painting died at the age of 83 almost blind, poor, yet surrounded by a large collection of paintings of his impressionist friends, bought during his life whom he did not want to separate.

Daniel Jacomet

is an artist who has created a type of stencil that now bears his name, a stencil almost identical to the original artwork. From 1921, he worked with the greatest artists of his time: Picasso, Braque, Chagall, Rouault, Dufy, Miro etc ... His children, André, Pierre and Marie-Jeanne, will take over. Then Bruno, his grandson, who will work with Olivier Debré, Herve Di Rosa, Gerard Garouste, Edouardo Arroyo, Jan Voss, ...

Jacomet stencil

This is a stencil print. The artist applies color by hand with a round brush in cardboard or zinc cutouts, to color surfaces that may even be in color gradient. It is about putting color on a printed pattern in black and white in lithography or collotype. The artist can therefore make several copies with the same patterns. This technique allows the artist to create an edition almost identical to the original artworks. Many professionals in the art world were caught by these perfect prints. There are still "Jacomet" which are considered original works today.

The work presented is called "facsimile" because it faithfully reproduces the original work and this most often with the original mediums. After making a very precise cut, the artist will color the stencil using colors and materials similar to the original: watercolor, gouache, ink, etc ... The signature is an integral part of the stencil. The paper can also be recreated. The printing and coloring were entirely done in the Jacomet studio.