Philippe-Henri-Napoléon Yves

1811 Neuss – 1889 Presles-et-Thierny, Aisnes

Philippe-Henri-Napoléon Yves, a full-time notary who worked as an amateur printmaker on the side, was a close associate of Alfred Cadart, the founder of the Société des Acquafortistes in Paris in 1862, who was instrumental in promoting and disseminating the art of etching in France. Yves’ earliest etchings, which date to the year 1858, include a self-portrait and several landscape etchings. In 1870 the artist exhibited two portrait etchings issued by Cadart at the Paris Salon. In 1879 he was still listed in the Annuaire des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Décoratifs. Interestingly enough, the yearbook does not give his private address but that of his publisher: “chez Madame Veuve Cadart, boulevard Haussmann 56” – a further indication of the close ties he enjoyed with the renowned Cadart publishing house.