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Liorel, Jules (& Cie)
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Connected / Amateur
Details
Life dates
Elbeuf [Seine-Maritime, F], 1858 - ?, ?
Activity
1896 - 1897 Bruxelles, Rue de la Madeleine, 49
Jules Paul, ° 4.5.1858. Collotypist and art publisher. Originally a lawyer, Liorel conceived his publishing project while still living in France: "Will buy negatives of Belgium (excluding Brussels). Reply to Liorel, 30 rue du Printemps, Paris" (Le Soir, 12.12.1895). He was still recorded as a lawyer domiciled at this Paris address on the occasion of his wedding on 18.9.1897. "We have visited the firm of Liorel & Cie and been shown a very artistic collection of the main attractions in Belgium, executed in collotype by means of the latest improvements. We note the remarkable level of detail, a captivating realism and very pleasing tonality" (Journal de Bruxelles, 25.6.1896).
1897 - 1898 Bruxelles, Rue de l'Empereur, 1
Registered as a lawyer at this address from 9.7.1897 until 13.6.1898. Liorel published "Le Sentiment d'art en photographie. Publication Universelle. Reproductions [en phototypie] d'oeuvres primées en concours mensuels", Brussels, X. Havermans, October 1898 - December 1900; continued under the title "L'Art en photographie" under the imprint of Camille Smits - Lecyloë in 1901. The ambitious object of the publication, as set down in a prospectus under Smits' aegis, was "to make of the photographer, not an artisan, but an artist, it is to destroy the prejudice, according to which the amateur must be content with reproducing as truly as possible the reality shown by the object-glass, without occupying himself with the impression evolved by it" (British Journal of Photography, 1.7.1898, p. 426). These collections of landscapes, portraits, genre studies and nudes include many of Liorel's own photographs under his own signature or under more or less anagrammatic pseudonyms: L. Leroi, Leroy, Leroil, Leclair (?), Rellio, Rollie.
1899 Bruxelles, Rue des Tanneurs, 177
1900 - 1903 Bruxelles - Anderlecht, Rue de la Clinique, 87<02> or 91
In directories, "& Cie" from 1900. Collotype. "Loreil, G." in 1902; "Lolel" in the 1902 Mertens directory. In parallel to his art photography publication, Liorel produced a deluxe periodical "L'Art belge du XXe siècle" (1901), with collotypes of sculpture and graphic art by the country's leading artists of the period. British patent for a "new or improved method of printing music and apparatus therefor, permitting copying by any photographic printing process on a reduced scale", application filed on 10.10.1902 and granted on 11.12.1902. By 1903 Liorel was back in his native Elbeuf [F], registered as a lawyer living in Rue Adolphe Thiers, 4.
1901 Bruxelles - Ixelles, Rue Guillaume Stocq, 13
Collotype. "Printing for arts, science and industry".
Jules Paul, ° 4.5.1858. Collotypist and art publisher. Originally a lawyer, Liorel conceived his publishing project while still living in France: "Will buy negatives of Belgium (excluding Brussels). Reply to Liorel, 30 rue du Printemps, Paris" (Le Soir, 12.12.1895). He was still recorded as a lawyer domiciled at this Paris address on the occasion of his wedding on 18.9.1897. "We have visited the firm of Liorel & Cie and been shown a very artistic collection of the main attractions in Belgium, executed in collotype by means of the latest improvements. We note the remarkable level of detail, a captivating realism and very pleasing tonality" (Journal de Bruxelles, 25.6.1896).
1897 - 1898 Bruxelles, Rue de l'Empereur, 1
Registered as a lawyer at this address from 9.7.1897 until 13.6.1898. Liorel published "Le Sentiment d'art en photographie. Publication Universelle. Reproductions [en phototypie] d'oeuvres primées en concours mensuels", Brussels, X. Havermans, October 1898 - December 1900; continued under the title "L'Art en photographie" under the imprint of Camille Smits - Lecyloë in 1901. The ambitious object of the publication, as set down in a prospectus under Smits' aegis, was "to make of the photographer, not an artisan, but an artist, it is to destroy the prejudice, according to which the amateur must be content with reproducing as truly as possible the reality shown by the object-glass, without occupying himself with the impression evolved by it" (British Journal of Photography, 1.7.1898, p. 426). These collections of landscapes, portraits, genre studies and nudes include many of Liorel's own photographs under his own signature or under more or less anagrammatic pseudonyms: L. Leroi, Leroy, Leroil, Leclair (?), Rellio, Rollie.
1899 Bruxelles, Rue des Tanneurs, 177
1900 - 1903 Bruxelles - Anderlecht, Rue de la Clinique, 87<02> or 91
In directories, "& Cie" from 1900. Collotype. "Loreil, G." in 1902; "Lolel" in the 1902 Mertens directory. In parallel to his art photography publication, Liorel produced a deluxe periodical "L'Art belge du XXe siècle" (1901), with collotypes of sculpture and graphic art by the country's leading artists of the period. British patent for a "new or improved method of printing music and apparatus therefor, permitting copying by any photographic printing process on a reduced scale", application filed on 10.10.1902 and granted on 11.12.1902. By 1903 Liorel was back in his native Elbeuf [F], registered as a lawyer living in Rue Adolphe Thiers, 4.
1901 Bruxelles - Ixelles, Rue Guillaume Stocq, 13
Collotype. "Printing for arts, science and industry".
Locations
1896 - 1897 Bruxelles, Rue de la Madeleine, 49
1897 - 1898 Bruxelles, Rue de l'Empereur, 1
1899 Bruxelles, Rue des Tanneurs, 177
1900 - 1903 Bruxelles - Anderlecht, Rue de la Clinique, 87<02> or 91
1901 Bruxelles - Ixelles, Rue Guillaume Stocq, 13
1897 - 1898 Bruxelles, Rue de l'Empereur, 1
1899 Bruxelles, Rue des Tanneurs, 177
1900 - 1903 Bruxelles - Anderlecht, Rue de la Clinique, 87<02> or 91
1901 Bruxelles - Ixelles, Rue Guillaume Stocq, 13
Exhibitions
Effort, 1901; Turin, 1902.
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Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#2805
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 27.4.2018; SFJ revised 28.7.2020 & 13.2.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 9.3.2023