{"id":17418,"date":"2015-11-05T01:06:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T01:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17418"},"modified":"2015-11-05T01:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T01:06:01","slug":"papillons-by-ea-seguy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/11\/05\/papillons-by-ea-seguy\/","title":{"rendered":"Papillons by EA S\u00e9guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"seguy01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/seguy01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d seen a couple of these plates before\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.co.uk\/2006\/12\/pochoir-insects.html\" target=\"_blank\">BibliOdyssey<\/a> has a post about S\u00e9guy&#8217;s insect art\u2014but not the book as a whole. In addition to the butterfly portraits there are also a number of suggestions for textile designs based on butterfly wings. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Papillons00SeYg\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Papillons<\/em><\/a> was published in 1925. Five years later S\u00e9guy produced a collection of Art Deco designs, <em>Prismes<\/em>, which was highlighted a while ago, and which is now also available at <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/prismes40planche00segu\" target=\"_blank\">the Internet Archive<\/a>. The <em>Prismes<\/em> plates tend to abstraction but nonetheless feature some stylised natural elements, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/prismes40planche00segu#page\/n18\/mode\/1up\" target=\"_blank\">butterflies included<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"seguy02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/seguy02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"seguy03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/seguy03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"seguy04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/seguy04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"seguy05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/seguy05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"seguy06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/seguy06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"seguy07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/seguy07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/03\/13\/prismes\/\">Prismes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d seen a couple of these plates before\u2014BibliOdyssey has a post about S\u00e9guy&#8217;s insect art\u2014but not the book as a whole. In addition to the butterfly portraits there are also a number of suggestions for textile designs based on butterfly wings. Papillons was published in 1925. Five years later S\u00e9guy produced a collection of Art &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/11\/05\/papillons-by-ea-seguy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Papillons by EA S\u00e9guy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4],"tags":[277,275,141],"class_list":["post-17418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","tag-art-deco","tag-ea-seguy","tag-insects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4wW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}