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Etching signed A. Mayeur * representing a view of the mill Bouvigny (common Bouvigny Boyeffles, in the Pas-de-Calais, northern France), vintage early twentieth century.
This engraving is in good condition. Annotated and signed at the bottom. A similar engraving is kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Arras.
A note: slight yellowing and wear of time, see photos.
artist from Artois is now little known. He obtained the First Grand Prix de Rome of Engraving in 1896, and was named a member of the Commission des Monuments Historiques, in 1906. He was successively trained at the School of Fine Arts in Lille, with Alphonse Leroy (from 1888 to 1892), and in Paris in the studio of Jules Jacquet (from 1892 to 1896), Arthur Mayeur acquired a solid experience and mastered perfectly the different techniques of printmaking. Recognized for his talent as an engraver of interpretation, he was regularly rewarded at the Salon des Artistes Français and obtained several orders from the State. He collaborated in the illustration of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts (from 1901 to 1910) and the Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne (from 1904 to 1910). As a member of the Historic Monuments Commission, Arthur Mayeur is involved in the promotion of northern heritage. Given the extent of the destruction, during the First World War, the artist devoted himself to the representation of the last vestiges of the monuments on the front of the Artois: The Belfry of Arras, The Chapel Notre-Dame of Lorette, The Tours of Mont-Saint-Eloi .... He designed the ruins of Arras after the turmoil (1918, twelve etchings), testimony of art and history presented as an album, bought by the State in 1919. (See Musenor site)
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