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Dricot, Félix & Cie
Identity
Category
Firm
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Connected
Details
Life dates
Activity
1898 * - 1911 Bruxelles - Molenbeek, Rue de la Prospérité, 10 or 19<01-08>
Photoengraving and halftone. Electrotype, collotype, photolithography. Félix Léopold Dricot (° Brussels - Molenbeek, 28.10.1872; + Brussels - Koekelberg, 5.7.1923) was initially recorded as a draughtsman resident in Brussels - Molenbeek at the occasion of his wedding there on 25.11.1893. Patent of 13.10.1899 for "a process for intaglio reproduction on metal known as process intaglio". "Three-colour process printing", 1901. The firm rapidly gained a reputation for excellent half-tone work and supplied many of Belgium's printer-publishers.
1903 - 1908 Bruxelles - Koekelberg, Rue François Delcoigne, 52 or 62<07-08>
1905 ca Bruxelles - Koekelberg, Avenue de la Liberté, 53
Industrial photoengraving, three-colour process. No mention of "& Cie" at this address. Also listed here in 1921-1923. Félix Dricot died at this address in 1923. Following Dricot’s death, his widow continued to be listed here until 1926.
1908 - 1914 Bruxelles - Molenbeek, Rue de Menin, 20
Photoengraving, halftone engraving, three-colour process, photolithography.
Photoengraving and halftone. Electrotype, collotype, photolithography. Félix Léopold Dricot (° Brussels - Molenbeek, 28.10.1872; + Brussels - Koekelberg, 5.7.1923) was initially recorded as a draughtsman resident in Brussels - Molenbeek at the occasion of his wedding there on 25.11.1893. Patent of 13.10.1899 for "a process for intaglio reproduction on metal known as process intaglio". "Three-colour process printing", 1901. The firm rapidly gained a reputation for excellent half-tone work and supplied many of Belgium's printer-publishers.
1903 - 1908 Bruxelles - Koekelberg, Rue François Delcoigne, 52 or 62<07-08>
1905 ca Bruxelles - Koekelberg, Avenue de la Liberté, 53
Industrial photoengraving, three-colour process. No mention of "& Cie" at this address. Also listed here in 1921-1923. Félix Dricot died at this address in 1923. Following Dricot’s death, his widow continued to be listed here until 1926.
1908 - 1914 Bruxelles - Molenbeek, Rue de Menin, 20
Photoengraving, halftone engraving, three-colour process, photolithography.
Locations
1898 * - 1911 Bruxelles - Molenbeek, Rue de la Prospérité, 10 or 19<01-08>
1903 - 1908 Bruxelles - Koekelberg, Rue François Delcoigne, 52 or 62<07-08>
1905 ca Bruxelles - Koekelberg, Avenue de la Liberté, 53
1908 - 1914 Bruxelles - Molenbeek, Rue de Menin, 20
1903 - 1908 Bruxelles - Koekelberg, Rue François Delcoigne, 52 or 62<07-08>
1905 ca Bruxelles - Koekelberg, Avenue de la Liberté, 53
1908 - 1914 Bruxelles - Molenbeek, Rue de Menin, 20
Exhibitions
Paris, 1900 (silver medal); Saint-Louis, 1904 (silver medal); Liège, 1905 (phototypography and photolithography; gold medal); Brussels, 1906 (as both printer and draughtsman).
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Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1898 - 1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#5171
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 18.4.2017, 25.12.2017, 20.1.2018 & 8.3.2019; SFJ revised 4.4.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 27.5.2020, 13.11.2020, 29.11.2021 & 27.10.2022; SFJ revised 12.12.2023 based on information supplied by Pool Andries