/// Henri GUÉRARD ///

Original unsigned etching. Date 1897. size: 20.6x13.8cm.
Catalog Reference: Sanchez & Seydoux 1897-13

/// Biography of Henri GUÉRARD ///

Painter and engraver. Paris 25 April 1846 - Montmartre 24 March 1897

Henri Guérard was born at 41 rue Bourbon Villeneuve (today rue d'Aboukir). He is the son of Charles-Étienne Guérard and Marie Justine Augustine Ruel de Forge. He is best known as an etcher and lithographer. He began his studies at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in architecture, then moved on to painting and printmaking in 1870, under the protection of Nicolas Berthon (1831–1888). In April 1873 appeared the first number of Paris à l'eau-forte, a weekly newspaper, topicality, curiosity and fantasy, illustrated with etchings whose founders are Richard Lesclide, editor-in-chief, Frédéric Régamey, director of waters -fortes, Doctor Paul Gachet, and Henri Guérard. The review ceased in 1876. A friend of Manet, he frequented Nina de Villard's salon. He poses for Manet in the canvas entitled Au Café, alongside the actress Ellen Andrée. He married in 1879 to Eva Gonzalès, painter, pupil, model and friend of Manet, who left portraits of her husband. In 1881, he illustrated the work of his father-in-law Emmanuel Gonzalès, Les Caravanes de Scaramouche. The couple went to the Saint-Siméon farm in Honfleur, where they found their painter friends: Félix Bracquemond, Félix Buhot, Cézanne, Adolphe-Félix Cals, Jules Chéret, Ernest Cabaner, Norbert Gœneutte. They live at 2 rue Bréda (today, Rue Henry-Monnier) and 4 avenue Frochot. The couple is closely linked to the painter Norbert Gœneutte, who painted several portraits of the family. In 1883, Guérard participated in Japanese Art by Louis Gonse, published by the publisher Albert Quantin. In April, he published Japonisme, an album of ten etchings by Edmond Sagot. In 1889, he created, with his friend Félix Bracquemond, the Society of French painters-engravers, which exhibited at the Durand-Ruel gallery. Source wikipedia