By M. P. Verneuil. Paris, 1897. Maurice Pillard Verneuil was bom in St. Quentin in the Aisne in 1869. His early art training was reflective of the dominant academic tradition which stressed draughtsmanship and held life drawing to be the highest form of art. Other branches of design were viewed with much less favor. As the century wore on however, the rigidity of these definitions began to soften and the distinction between the fine and applied arts became less strictly enforced. In France, the emergence of pattern books that stressed color and composition began to exert artistic influence. The workshop, or atelier, system of master and students encouraged collaboration as well as influencing the assistants in the style of the master. Verneuil was a star pupil in the workshop of Eugene Grasset and executed many of Grasset's designs for his La Plante et ses Applications Ornementales. Following its publication, Verneuil embarked on a folio utilizing the animal in decorative form. This series he dedicated to Grasset and is seen as a companion folio. Size (in): 13.5 x 18
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