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Photography as pictural art !

UNIQUE ARTWORKS FROM DIGITAL FILES

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Since 1842 - John Frederick William Herschel

Blue Cyanotype

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Since 1895 - Anthony van Dyck

Van Dyke Brown

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Since 1873 - Wiliam Willis

Platine Paladium

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Since 1850 - Alphonse Poitevin

Watercolor Gum Print

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Since 1990 - Karl Koenig

GUMOIL Printing

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BEAUX-ARTS PHOTOGRAPHY SERVICES

LE PICTORIALIST is a world-exclusive beaux-arts printmaking Lab & Service.

 Using ennobling printing processes from the 19th century pictorialist movement, each print is entirely made by hand in our Parisian Lab and carefully inspected with the highest standards of quality and care. 

Your digital picture  becomes a timeless and unique art piece, somewhere between drawing, lithography, painting and photography…

OUR HISTORICAL PROCESSES

Send any picture, we will make a piece of art of it !

SELECT YOUR PROCESS, VARIATION AND SIZE

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OUR EXPERT HAND CRAFT THE PRINT

HOME DELIVERY WITHIN TWO WEEKS

"HAND-CRAFTED IN OUR PARISIAN LAB IN PARIS"

For Photographers, Painters, Digital Artists, Alternative creators looking for the aesthetics of an elegant medium with a romantic feel.

Your digital picture becomes a timeless and unique piece of Art, somewhere between Drawing, Lithography, Painting and Photography.

Crafted on ©Arches watercolor paper, and created with Beaux-arts raw materials : Silver and Platinum emulsion, ©Sennelier Watercolor Pigment, ©Charbonnel Etching Ink...

WATERCOLOR PAPER

Watercolor paper is paper or substrate onto which an artist applies watercolor paints, pigments or dyes.
©ARCHES began manufacturing watercolor paper around 1620.
We use ARCHES® Platine 100% cotton rag, no alkaline reserve, acid-free, no optical brightening agents, made on a cylinder mould

MAKING EMULSION

Each process consist in creating a photosensitive emulsion ready to catch light.
Depending on the process, we use ferrous, non ferrous, pigment or oil materials.
The sensitizing chemicals are mixed by hand in our lab with a very precise balance.

APPLYING EMULSION

Most emulsions are liquid enough to be applied by hand with a special brush.
It needs to be fast, precise, and homogenous.
It is all about crafting the shape of the final image.

NEGATIVE PRINTING

Our historical processes are called " contact printing".
It requires a digital negative print of your picture, as large as the final Image.
We use a 72" pigment printer, to have the best details and negative quality onto transparent paper.

CURVE CORRECTION PATTERN

Each process has a different reaction to UV light.
To get the full range of Black and White, we need to apply a correction to the negative digital Print to get the most genuine shadows and lighting.

UV EXPOSION

The coated paper is fitted onto the digital negative, then placed under a press to optimize contact between them.
Our UV lighting Table will expose the paper as a Photographic camera does, and the chemical reaction will start from here.
Each process has a specific time for exposure, depending on our Curve Correction Pattern.

CLEARING

The paper sheet needs to be bathed several times in stainless inox vats filled with clear water.
That is why we need the best watercolor paper that can sustain long handling processes.

handling

As the paper is sunk in its different chemical baths, we can still modify the final result using different tools such as a brush, a sponge, a scratcher amongst others.

MULTIPLE PASS

Some processes as the Red Chalk Gum Print needs multi-layer coating, with different exposure timing and different watercolor pigments to create a truly pictorial artwork.

EXPLORE OUR PRINTS GALLERY

All  - Cyanotype  -  Van Dyke  -  Platinum  -  Red Chalk Gum print  -  Gumoil

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KISS — $250 +
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KIDS — $150 +
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HARCOURT — $250 +
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HAND — $250 +
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FISHING DECK — $250 +
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DEMACHY — $250 +
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DANCERS — $250 +
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BOAT — $250 +

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17 rue Princesse, 75006 Paris, France

Contact@lepictorialist.com

+33 (0) 6 44 18 87 24

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