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Pictorial initial (page 224) from Les Petites Fleurs de St. François (The Little Flowers of St. Francis)

Pictorial initial (page 224) from Les Petites Fleurs de St. François (The Little Flowers of St. Francis)

Émile Bernard
French, 1868–1941
1928
A printed page from Émile Bernard’s 1928 illustrated edition of Les Petites Fleurs de Saint François that uses a carved woodcut pictorial initial to bring a medieval devotional image into a modern book.
Your eye is immediately caught by a warm-brown, blocky initial that also reads as a stylized friar—its bold, simplified lines and curling flourish forming a striking counterpoint to the calm, closely set French text on the page.
Bernard’s woodcut fuses medieval iconography with modernist simplification and is part of an early-20th-century revival of handcrafted book arts that reclaimed the expressive, tactile power of the woodcut in contemporary illustration.
Medium
One from an illustrated book with 329 woodcuts
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4" (8.2 × 7 cm); page: 12 13/16 × 9 13/16" (32.5 × 25 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Louis E. Stern Collection
Accession
677.1964.181
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