page_title: Adolphe Lalauze
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Adolphe Lalauze / Work
caption_attribution_description: English: Adolphe Lalauze (1838–1906) La Lecon de Dessin (The Drawing Lesson) 1880
context_page_description: Adolphe Lalauze was a prolific French etcher who made the illustrations for many books. He won various awards and was made a knight of the Legion of Honour.
context_section_description: Lalauze was known for etchings that depicted children, using his own children as models.
  He also made etchings that interpreted work by such artists as Charles Bargue, Pieter Codde, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Juan Antonio Gonzalez, Charles Green, Antoine-Jean Gros, Jean-Baptiste Huet, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, David Teniers, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Diego Velázquez.
  Lalauze made color prints by superimposing etched boards.
  Some of his larger plates included "Love Story" after Frank Dicksee, "A Kiss from the Sea" after Hamilton Macallum and "The Entry of Charles V into Antwerp" after Hans Makart.
  His best work included "The Halt" after Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, etched for the magazine l'Art, and "Portrait of Madame Pompadour" after Maurice Quentin de La Tour,
  published by the Société des Artistes Français.
  During his lifetime he was called "one of the most skillful original etchers of the modern French school".
  An 1889 book described him as an etcher with extreme facility who composed elegant vignettes and frontispieces.
  Later, Claude Roger-Marx criticized him for having fallen from interpretive drawing into a "laborious work of illustration" and of multiplying small compositions and vignettes.
caption: La Leçon de Dessin (The Drawing Lesson) 1880
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