Loÿs Delteil

At sixteen, he became an apprentice to the lithographer, Charles Pipard (1832–1916), as well as learning engraving techniques from, among others, Henri Boutet.

[1] During his military service, from 1889 to 1892, he wrote some occasional articles about engravers; mostly in defense of his contemporaries, and critical of the government, which appeared to have little interest in acquiring prints.

In 1897, he founded a society for artists, "La Liane", which focused on prints created with manual processes, and organized exhibitions.

[2] He also joined the editorial staff at L'Estampe et l'affiche [fr], a neo-traditionalist magazine, founded by André Mellerio and Noël Clément-Janin.

[1] In 1906, the income he had earned as a professional consultant enabled him to publish an historiographic inventory series, Le Peintre-graveur illustré, which he produced until his death.