Émile De Ruaz

Émile Louis de Ruaz was a French painter and engraver born on September 20, 1868 in Paris, where he died on December 3, 1931.

Biography

Émile Louis de Ruaz was born in Paris, rue Mouffetard in the 5th arrondissement, on September 20, 18681 to Joseph Philippe de Ruaz (1834-1871) and Marie Philomène Vaugeois (1837-1895).

From 1889, he was a member of the Salon des artistes français, regularly exhibiting woodcuts. At the Salon des Champs-Élysées in 1895, he received an honorable mention, and in 1897 he was awarded a third-class medal. At the 1900 Exposition Universelle, he won a bronze medal in the Engraving and Lithography category. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Indépendants in 1908.

In 1914, Émile de Ruaz, together with Paul Bornet, Marguerite Dreyfus, Eugène Dété, Charles-Julien Clément, Henri Brauer, Georges Auber, Victor Dutertre, Charles Smachtens, Léhon Jouenne fils, Maurice Joseph Lamy and Marguerite Jacob-Bazin, founded the Société des Cartons d'Estampes Gravées sur Bois, under the patronage of French President Raymond Poincaré. At the Exposition Internationale de l'Industrie du Livre et des Arts Graphiques in Leipzig, in May 1914, as President of this new Society and with the help of Paul Bornet, he helped showcase the works produced by this same professional collective. During the First World War, the Société was dormant. However, in 1919, it published its first Carton d'Estampes (originally begun in 1913), for a total run of 62 copies on Japon paper, with printing completed by Maison Lahure: a total collection of 17 woodcuts, highlighting the efforts of part of the xylographers' guild.