Political Drawing By Paul Renouard, Pencil

Charles Paul Renouard was a French painter, engraver and illustrator. Paul Renouard left his native region in 1859 to earn a living in Paris. He became a house painter and had the opportunity to come and work in the premises of the École des Beaux-Arts. There he occasionally showed a talent for drawing that he had had since childhood. He was noticed and in 1868, he was admitted to the Beaux-Arts where he entered the studio of Isidore Pils. A beloved student of the latter, he helped him with the interior decorations of the Opéra Garnier and, in 1875, Pils having fallen ill, Paul Renouard painted the ceilings of the grand staircase based on his master's cartoons. Paul Renouard was above all a prolific illustrator working in black and white for the major illustrated newspapers. A regular contributor to L'Illustration, Paris illustré, Revue illustrée, and The Graphic in Washington during the Congress, he captured overseas political life on the spot in a collection of portraits and scenes that were as expressive as they were witty: the Appropriations Committee, the Ways and Means Committee, the left, the right, representatives of the press in Parliament, the stenographer, portraits of Mark Carlisle, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and John James Ingalls, Speaker of the Senate... Our work is signed lower left: P Renouard. Uniform exposure of the support.