The Technique of Pochoir: An Excerpt from Jean Saudé’s Traité d’enluminure d’art au pochoir

 Jean Saudé’s Traité d’enluminure d’art au pochoir (Treatise on the Art of Illumination Using Stencil) is comprised of a history of pochoir, a documentation of the technique, and critiques of the current state of the craft and of the apprenticeship system that supported it. A selection of thirteen artists’ prints, including works by Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), Sem (Georges Goursat, 1863–1934), Georges Lepape (1887–1971), and André-Morisset (1876–1954), demonstrates the various affects that can be achieved using pochoir.

The fourteen figures presented here, taken from the chapter entitled “Technique,” illustrate aspects of pochoir printing and depict some of the tools used by the artisans. This work was published by Éditions del’Ibis in 1925 as a portfolio with seventy-four pages and twenty plates.

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