Jean Émile Laboureur

He stayed for only a short time before deciding to pursue a career in the fine arts instead,[1] studying at the Académie Julian, where he learned engraving from Auguste-Louis Lepère.

Despite being conscripted in 1914, he continued to make sketches for his works and published three series of engravings on the theme of war.

He also contributed to magazines and journals, such as Gazette du Bon Ton and La Revue musicale, and taught engraving in his workshop.

One of his drawings of a Breton landscape was engraved by Jean Antonin Delzers [fr] and featured on the two Francs stamp in 1935.

From 1928 to 1935, he wrote several books and articles on the art of engraving; notably Considérations sur la gravure originale (1928), published in Brussels.