Obj. ID: 55352
  Comparative & Miscellaneous  Le Bain de la Mariee Juive, France, 1906

The following description was prepared by William Gross:

Assayer:                       Alexandre Lunois, 1863 -1916

Publisher:                     Gustave Pellet

Alexandre Lunois was born on February 2, 1863, in Paris. Lunois was an autodidact and is considered the re-inventor of the so-called lithotint technique. His first works were black and white lithographs, including "Scenes from a Life in Paris," "The Circus," and "Dutch Scenes." Inspired by his yearly travels, Lunois went more and more to color lithography. He produced the illustrations for Theophile Gautier's "Fortunio," among others. Lunois worked also as an engraver as of 1907 and published a luxury edition of the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen with 66 of his own engravings under the title "Histoires et Aventures" in his own publishing house. Lunois died on September 2, 1916, in Le-Pecq.