Pierre-Auguste Renoir as a book illustrator
In 1878, the publishers C. Marpon and E. Flammarion published a lavishly illustrated edition of �mile Zola�s novel L�Assommoir. The title page had a wood engraving of the central character Gervaise by Fortun� Louis M�aulle after a drawing by Andr� Gill, but no other indication of the treasure trove of art to be found within. In fact half a dozen engravers had been kept busy interpreting illustrations by a gallery of artists, including Gill, Norbert Goeneutte, Fr�d�ric Regamey, Henri Gervex, Daniel Vierge, Maurice Leloir, Georges Bellenger, and Fran�ois Feyen-Perrin. There are 62 plates in all, and four of them are by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. La descente des ouvriers Wood engraving by Fortun� M�aulle after Norbert Goeneutte, 1878 I don�t know who the publishers engaged to art direct this complex illustrated book, but my hunch would be Regamey, the former art director of the 1870s journal Paris � l�eau-forte , to which many of these artists (though not Renoir) had contributed. I suspect t