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4. Jean-Émile Laboureur

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André Dunoyer de Segonzac, portrait of Jean-Émile Laboureur. Reproduced
from Marcel Valotaire, Laboureur (Paris: Henri Babou, 1929),
frontispiece.


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[151]

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. Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont
Morgan Library.

[152]

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.

[153]

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.

[154]

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.
Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.

[155]

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). Gordon N. Ray Collection,
Pierpont Morgan Library.

[156]

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.

[157]

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.

[159]

Jean-Émile Laboureur, plate depicting a woman's head, in Remy de
Gourmont, Le songe d'une femme (Paris: Camille Bloch, 1925), frontispiece.
Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Jean-Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting a forest scene, in Remy de
Gourmont, Le songe d'une femme (Paris: Camille Bloch, 1925), p. 65.
Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.

[161]

Jean-Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting pots of jam, in Remy de
Gourmont, Le songe d'une femme (Paris: Camille Bloch, 1925), p. 31.
Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.

[163]

Jean-Émile Laboureur, plate depicting a theatrical troupe in the rain,
in Colette, L'Envers du music-hall (Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1926), frontispiece.
Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.

[164]

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. Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.

[165]

Jean-Émile Laboureur, plate depicting fairy-tale characters, in Charles
Perrault, Contes (Paris: Robert Hilsum, 1928), p. 9. Gordon N. Ray
Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.

[166]

Jean-Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting soldiers at their morning


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toilet, in André Maurois, Les silences du Colonel Bramble (Paris: Le
Livre, 1926), p. 167. Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan
Library.

[167]

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. Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.


[168]

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. Gordon N. Ray Collection,
Pierpont Morgan Library.

[169]

Jean-Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting Colonel Bramble and Aurelle,
in André Maurois, Les silences du Colonel Bramble (Paris: Le
Livre, 1926), p. 135. Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.


[170]

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.

[171]

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.

[172]

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.

[173]

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. Elisha Whittelsey Collection,
Department of Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of
Art.

[174]

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. Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.

[175]

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.

[176]

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. Gordon N.
Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.

[177]

Jean-Émile Laboureur, plate depicting a scene before an elevator, in
Jean Valmy-Baysse, Tableau des grands magasins (Paris: Éditions de la


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Nouvelle Revue Française, 1925), opposite p. 55. Gordon N. Ray Collection,
Pierpont Morgan Library.

[178]

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. Gordon
N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.

[179]

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). Department of Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan
Museum of Art.

[180]

Jean-Émile Laboureur, plate depicting a Portuguese hotel dining room,
in Valery Larbaud, 200 chambres, 200 salles de bain (Le Haye: J.
Gondrexon, 1927). Department of Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan
Museum of Art.

[181]

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. Department of Drawings and Prints,
Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[182]

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.

[183]

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.

[184]

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.

[185]

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.
Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.

[186]

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.
Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.

[187]

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. Gordon
N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.

[188]

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. Gordon N.
Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.


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[189]

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.

[190]

Jean-Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting an elephant in Paris, in
Paul-Jean Toulet, Les contrerimes (Paris: H.-M. Petiet, 1930), p. 33.
Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.

[191]

Jean-Émile Laboureur, vignette depicting a young girl awaking, in
Paul-Jean Toulet, Les contrerimes (Paris: H.-M. Petiet, 1930), p. 30.
Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.