Lecture by Hélène Bonafous-Murat
An evening at the Roybet Fould Museum in Courbevoie: «Théodule Ribot- engraver: the printing kitchen boy» on Thursday 14 March 2019 from 6pm to 7pm, lecture by Hélène Bonafous-Murat, Expert in old Master and modern prints, member of the National Company of Experts. Théodule Ribot has the charm of a little master who was trained by apprenticing with the Great Masters (Rembrandt, Chardin). He borrows his subjects from the world of cooks and marmitons, humble and laborious people, participating in a Social Realism that was then being developed. First, he resorted to lithography, then he became part of the renewal of etching technique, within the Society of Aquafortists founded by...