Charles Billoin & Jean Baptiste Madou

L'Hote et le Voyageur (The Inn Keeper and the Traveler)

Charles Billoin's original etching, L'Hote et le Voyageur (The Inn Keeper and the Traveler) is the first plate of a series of six etchings entitled, Scenes de Flandres (Scenes of Flanders). The etcher, designer and publisher were all Belgian. The printing, however, was left to France's foremost printer, Auguste Delatre (1822-1907). Each of these etchings bears his Paris rue de Bievre address, where he worked during the 1850's.

In L'Hote et le Voyageur a traveler of some substance approaches the inn keeper. Gathered around the fireplace, the other guests appear quite interested in the newcomer.

The British Museum, London, includes an impression of L'Hote et le Voyageur (The Inn Keeper and the Traveler) in it's permanent collection. It may be viewed on line under the Registration Number, 1888,0612.245.

Original Etching with Plate Tone by Charles Billoin designed by Jean Baptiste Madou.

L'Hote et le Voyageur (The Inn Keeper and the Traveler)

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Charles Billoin (Brussels, 1813 - Elsene, 1869) & Jean Baptiste Madou (Brussels, 1796 - 1877
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes
01.-		L'Hote et le Voyageur (The Inn Keeper and the Traveler) by Charles Billoin designed by Jean Baptiste Madou	Original Etching with Plate Tone	c. 1850 - 1860	Signed in the plate to the lower center by Charles Billoin and bearing the publisher's blindstamp ("Jules Geruzet, Editeur, Bruxelles")
02.-		La Marchande de Chapelets (The Rosary Merchant) by Charles Billoin designed by Jean Baptiste Madou	Original Etching with Plate Tone	c. 1850 - 1860	Signed in the plate to the lower center by Charles Billoin and bearing the publisher's blindstamp ("Jules Geruzet, Editeur, Bruxelles")

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Title:	L'Hote et le Voyageur (The Inn Keeper and the Traveler)
Etcher:	Billoin, Charles (Brussels, 1813 - Elsene, 1869)
Designer:	Madou, Jean Baptiste (Brussels, 1796 - 1877)
Date:	c. 1850 - 1860
Medium:	Original Etching with Plate Tone
Publisher:	Jules Geruzet, Brussels
Printer:	Auguste Delatre
Note:	Charles Billoin: A Belgian nineteenth century painter and etcher, Charles Billoin studied art in Brussels under Joseph Paelinck and van der Haert. He began exhibiting his art in Brussels around 1835 and was regularly commissioned by publishers there to etch portraits and scenes of Belgium for the following thirty years. Charles Billoin was a full member of L'Ecole Royale de Gravure.
	L'Hote et le Voyageur (The Inn Keeper and the Traveler) belongs to a set of six numbered etchings of Flemish scenes Billoin created in collaboration with another Belgian artist, Jean Baptiste Madou. Domestic town and country life in Flanders is the subject of these mid nineteenth century works of art.
	Jean Baptiste Madou: A prominent Belgian painter and lithographer, Jean Baptiste Madou studied art at the Brussels Academy, under Celestin Francois. He first gained attention for his sets of lithographs, such as, Un voyage picturesque dans les Pays-Bas (1821-1828), Costumes Belgiques (1830) and Scenes de la vie des Peintres de l'Ecole Flamande (1840). After 1840, however, Madou turned almost exclusively to painting and achieved a high reputation for his domestic and genre scenes. Today his art may be seen in museums in both Antwerp and Brussels.
	Auguste Delatre: Auguste Delatre fills an important role in nineteenth century French art, both as a creative etcher and engraver and as one of the greatest artist’s printers of any era. After Delatre learned to etch and print under the instructions of Charles Jacque and Louis Marvy he set up his own studio in Paris in 1848. Auguste Delatre helped to found the Societe des Aquafortistes in 1862. Two years later Whistler and Seymour Haden convinced Auguste Delatre to come to London where he taught etching techniques at the South Kensington Museum for several years. Delatre’s French studio was destroyed in the siege of Paris (1870) and he again returned to London for a period of six years. In 1876 Auguste Delatre reopened an etching studio in Montmarte.
	In both Paris and London, Delatre instructed many great artists on printing techniques and published an influential treatise on this subject. The artists who requested him to print their etched plates reads like a ‘who’s who’ of nineteenth century art. Corot, Appian, Whistler, Meryon, Manet, Haden, Ribot, Daubigny, Rops, Billoin and Bracquemond all pressed for his advice and skills. Auguste Delatre’s international stature as a leading printer owed much to his reintroduction of ‘plate tone’ -- a method of creating tonal values within etching through artistically back wiping the inked plate before printing. In particular, Rembrandt had previously used this technique to great effect. Charles Billoin's original etching, L'Hote et le Voyageur clearly shows Delatre's mastery of this method.
Size:	7 1/2 X 10 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Condition:	Printed upon fine china paper (chine colle) and impressed onto a large sheet of white, wove paper as published in Brussels around 1850. Signed in the plate to the lower center by Billoin and bearing the publisher's blindstamp ("Jules Geruzet, Editeur, Bruxelles") in the lower left margin. A strong, early impression and in excellent condition throughout. L'Hote et le Voyageur (The Inn Keeper and the Traveler) represents a fine, original example of the nineteenth century Belgian art of Charles Billoin and Jean Baptiste Madou, and the famous printing skills of Auguste Delatre.
Subject:	Charles Billoin, Jean Baptiste Madou, Auguste Delatre, L'Hote et le Voyageur (The Inn Keeper and the Traveler), original etching with plate tone, tonal values, back wiping, Paris, rue de Bievre, Societe des Aquafortistes.
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