My Thursday Throwback post are all about jewellers from history who I think should be celebrated.
This week is the turn of the French jeweller Charles Boutet de Monvel. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Artes, which roughly translates as school of fine arts. The schools history spans more then 250 years and has grown an reputation for first training many of the great artists of Europe.
Here he studied metal engraving and later he went on to study with the likes of Hubert Ponscarme, who was one of the top metal engravers of the time.
Charles Boutet De Monvel had more of a English Arts and Crafts and Jugendstil influence then many of his other French counterparts which helped to set him apart from his contemporise.
He specialised in making jewellery with a organic feel to it using, marine plants, spiders, lizards, pea pods and others as his inspiration for pieces and exhibiting them regularly at the Paris Salons.
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