Marguerite LOUPPE

The artist Marguerite Louppe, married Maurice Brianchon in 1934. She then went on to assist him regularly with the realisation of large-scale decorative mural work; in the same way, when Jacques Adnet approached Brianchon in the 1940’s to ask him to work on tapestry cartoons, Louppe would also contribute some of her own designs.
The style (use of perspective and shading …) the themes are usually (except from our cartoon, with a more working-class inspiration) a throw-back to the classical decorative tradition “à la française” of which Adnet and the Compagnie des Arts Français considered themselves the advocates : soon however, Lurçat and his followers would sweep aside this aesthetic despite its obvious successes.