updated version:
In a previous blog from 13 April, I show you a drawing of the Rabbit from Martin, this drawing was made by Louis Poyet.
Louis Poyet (born in Saint-Etienne, 1846 – died in Paris, 1913) was a draftsman, etcher and French illustrator known for his work that he made together with scientists, industrialists and engineers.
Louis Poyet moved to Paris and in 1877 he opened his own print studio.
His workshop had around 40 craftsmen
He started working for Gaston Tissandier as an Illustrator / writer for the La Nature magazine, for which he continued to work until his death.
He signed with “Poyet” and sometimes “L. Poyet”.
He has made many beautiful etchings for Martin that have been published in, among others, the magazine: La Nature
Source: (Cnum – Digital Conservatory of Arts and Crafts – http://cnum.cnam.fr)
He also worked on several books and magazines so as:
-The book of Charles Masson, published in 1884 entitled: The scientific recreation for education and play.
-The magazine: Le Chercheur from Arthur Good
-Poyet was also one of the industrial illustrators of images for the book series Les Grandes Usines published by Michel Levy from 1876 till 1881.
-In 1889 he worked for Tom Tit (pseudonym of Arthur Good engineer) with which he worked on:
The Recreational Science section in the L’Illustration magazine
The Fun Science a booklet with 100 Experiments, with 115 Drawings in 1890.
This first booklet was again published in 1893 and then followed by two completely new editions.
The success factor of this series was enormous
Translations were sold in 1891 in Spain, England, the United States, Scandinavia, Russia.
There are around 130 different editions of these three volumes, released until the 1920s.
To complete the circle, one of Martin’s toys, the Le “Tom Tit” Martin number 157 (See in the 2014 book: Fernand Martin toymaker in Paris on page 95 ) was based on one of the experiments from Arthur Good; La rotation de la Terre
Below you see on the left the drawing from the book “La Science Amusant” of Tom Tit, this drawing was made by Louis Poyet, on the right an image from a page of a catalog by Fernand Martin
After the death of Louis Poyet in 1913 his studio was taken over by his sons Roger in Raphael, under the name “Poyet Brothers”.