Engraving Art Deco Stencil Plowman The Taste of the Day 1920 Portrait Woman Fashion

  

Old color stencil engraving on Arches laid paper. Portrait of an elegant woman. Plate number 4 from the magazine Le Goût du Jour, dated July 5, 1920. Caption: Dress in emerald green taffeta trimmed with wide ribbons of the same shade. White organdy on the bodice.

21.5 x 14.3 cm sheet. The engraving is not signed. Good condition, signs of use, slight sun exposure at the edges, traces of paper glued on the back. Directed by François Bernouard, Le Goût du Jour is an old magazine of women's and men's fashion from the Art Deco period. Each issue consists of plates, full-page, in color.

These engravings are made with burin, drypoint, and sometimes etching, always enhanced with stencil or hand-painted tones. The number of plates ranges from 2 to 4 depending on the issue. The illustrations are by various artists such as Janine Aghion, Eduardo Garcia Benito, Robert Bonfils, and many others.