Auguste Brouet - le journal

Let me thank also all who have visited this website in the past years, be it for a brief survey or a more in depth exploration.

Here are some news on the project. The catalogue raisonné itself has not changed much. It seems no significant number of hitherto unknown prints have surfaced recently. My latest efforts have focussed more on the context in which Brouet worked, and the result has taken the form of blog posts^[1] . For practical reasons, most of them are in French, and English is used only if the topic requires. I do have in mind translating some of the material into English, which would require more time than I am willing to spend, however. Should I use automated translation? In 2016, I have started investigating the life of a rather unknown publisher of Brouet's work, Frédéric Grégoire. I am proud to announce that the series will continue: in 2017, the lives of two other mysterious publishers will unfold, namely Octave Bernard, the man behind l'Estampe Moderne - or so-called Moderne! - and the even more elusive Gaston Boutitie (not Boutitié), whose identification materialized when I hit on a single line scribbled in a dusty administrative register. For some years now, I have also had plans for a post on the single most significant individual in the life and work of Auguste Brouet: the print amateur. Maybe 1917 will be the year of the amateur! Anyway,

Happy new year to him!