LAUDY, Jean "Médée. May 14, 1904. Oeuvre des Petits Pieds nus". Drawing, pen and Indian ink, qqs blue pencil strokes, 31 x 29 cm, wove strong vellum 48 x 36 cm; signed in the lower corner g. (crumpled edges, fold in the upper part). Draft cover for a program ? Portrait of the French actress Caroline-Eugénie Second-Weber in the role of Medea, a play by Catulle Mendès performed by artists of the Comédie-Française at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, for the benefit of the charity "Les Petits Pieds nus". "Madame Segond-Weber was admirable in Medea; she is an artist of a sculptural beauty whose vibrant voice marked the role of a tragic greatness" (cfr H. Liebrecht in "Le Thyrse", T. 6, p. 2). By the painter and engraver of Dutch origin J. Laudy (1877-1956), who settled in Brussels in 1893 and became a naturalized artist in 1921.
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