2 Calling Cards: Baschet Family -Paris Publisher Editor

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3 Items Related to the Baschet Family of France

(A Father and His 2 Sons)

The Baschet Family: A Dynasty of French Publishing and Journalism

2 Calling Cards: The Father: Ludovic Baschet.   A Son: René Baschet

Plus Portrait of Another Son: The Artist André Marcel Baschet

On a Scrapbook Page Assembled by Philadelphia Publisher Robert Barrie in the Early 1900s

With 3 Steamship Items from 1900 and 1908 : Norddeutscher Lloyd Line (North German Lloyd).

Above: 3 Items Related to 3 Members of the Baschet Family (A Father and His 2 Sons)

2 Calling Cards: The Father: Ludovic Baschet.   A Son: René Baschet

Portrait: Another Son: André Marcel Baschet

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Above: Calling Card of the Father: Ludovic Bashcet...

...Important Publisher in Paris.

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Above: Calling Card of a Son: René Baschet...

...Editor of La Revue Illustrée  and  l’Illustration.

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Above: Portrait of Another Son: André Marcel Baschet...

...Famous Portrait Painter

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(Only the left margins of the top menu and the 1908 log abstract are glued down, so you can see the reverse sides of those 2 items. )

Above:  The Other Side of the Scrapbook Page:

3 Steamship Items from 1900 and 1908 : Norddeutscher Lloyd Line (North German Lloyd).

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L'Empire Baschet: The Baschet Family Dynasty

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The Father: Ludovic Marcel:

Ludovic Baschet (born 1834 - died 1909) was an influential French publisher in Paris.

Baschet was internationally renowned for his publications on the arts, including annual books by the French Salon, such as Salon de 1893 - Societe de Artistes Francais et Societe National de Beaux-Arts.  

He also published La Galerie Contemporaine des Illustrations Françaises.

His other publications include books such as Galeries des Artistes Modernes (1885), and books about French artists such as Jules Bastien Lepage.  His books presented works of other premiere artists such as Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Delacroix, Duprey, Fromentin, etc.

Ludovic Marcel also published the official publications of the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, including the Catalogue Officiel Illustre De L'Exposition Centennale De L'Art Francais 1800 - 1889.

Ludovic Marcel had 6 children. Two of them are represented on this scrapbook page: Renee Baschel (the calling card), and Andre Marcel Baschet (the portrait).

René Baschet, The Eldest Son of Ludovic Baschel:

René Baschet (born 1860 - died 1949) was the editor of the illustrated French magazine La Revue Illustrée.  He was assisted by his son Louis Baschet. (Who is not represented on this scrapbook page.)

This magazine published works by leading French writers, such as Guy de Maupassant, Emile Zola, Maurice Barrès, and Anatole France.

In 1895 Rene Baschet also began publishing the magazine Le Panorama.  He also edited other political and literary journals, with Adolphe Brisson.

In 1904 Rene Baschet left his position as editor of La Revue Illustrée to become the editor of  l’Illustration.  He was editor of that news journal for 40 years, from 1904 to 1944.  Baschet transformed that magaine into one of the great journals of its eras.  Rene's sons also worked with this publicaton, Louis Baschet, Pierre Baschet, and Jean Baschet.

Rend Baschet became a commandeur de la légion d’honneur in1928.  Rene Baschet also resided in Gagny, France.

André Marcel Baschet, Another Son of Ludovic Baschel:

Marcel Baschet was one of the great portraitists of the Third Republic in France, la IIIè République.  He is often remembered for his portrait of the composer Claude Debussy. Baschet's painting Printemps, inspired Debussy's work by that same name.

Baschet was a teacher at the Académie Julian in Paris, where his pupils included Jean Bouchard, Lewis Collins Stone, Serge Férat, Christiane de Préval, etc.

Many of his paintings were illustrations in l'Illustration, the periodical managed by his other family members.  He joined l’Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts, with maître Gustave Boulanger.

Marcel Baschet painted many arts, business and civic leaders of that era, including Claude Debussy, Henri Brisson, Alexandre Millerand family members, Gaston Doumergue, Raymond Poincaré, etc.

He was a Commandeur de la légion d’honneur, and  was a member of l’Académie des Beaux arts.

His son, Pierre Baschet, had a career in paper milling, with the paper mill papeteries Prioux-Glatron-Baschet et Cie.

The Steamship Items:

The front side of this scrapbook page has 3 items related to 2 steamships of the Norddeutscher Lloyd Line (North German Lloyd).

1. March 31, 1900 menu of the ship Kaiserin Maria Theresia.  Apparently it is a lunch or dinner menu.

2. November 15, 1908 menu of the Kronprinzessin Cecile cruise ship, with a chromolithograph illustration of the ship.  Apparently the first-class menu.

3. Abstract of Log for the steamship ocean liner Kronpinzessin Cecile for passage to U.S. November 11 to 17, 1908, with Captain D. Hogemann.

 The Kronprinzessin Cecile was built by A.G.Vulkan, Stettin in 1906 for Norddeutscher Lloyd. In World War I she was seized by US, and became the US transport Mount Vernon. She was scrapped in 1940 at Baltimore.

The Kaiserin Maria Theresia was built in 1890 as the Spree for North German Lloyd of Bremen by AG Vulcan, Stettin. She was rebuilt as an auxiliary cruiser for the Russo-Japanese War, and was then renamed Ural, and was sunk by a Japanese destroyer.

 In 1970 the North German Lloyd Line combined with Hamburg America Line to become HAPAG-Lloyd.

From a Scrapbook Assembled by Publisher Robert Barrie of Philadelphia:

These items were in a scrapbook assembled by Philadelphia publisher Robert Barrie in the late 1800s and early 1900s. (The last dated item in the scrapbook is 1937, with most items dated in the first decade of the 1900s.)

Note: I recently offered on Ebay another scrapbook by Robert Barrie, about yachting. I am offering that yaching scrapbook complete as I purchased it. The items I offer here comes from a second Robert Barrie scrapbook, whose pages I am selling individually, because of the diversity of items in this second scrapbook. I purchased these scrapbooks at an estate auction here in Pennsylvania.

This Robert Barrie was the son of publisher George Barrie, a Scottish-American immigrant who founded the Philadelphia publishing house Barrie and Sons. George Barrie was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Here in Philadelphia, George Barrie was first employed by the publisher J. B. Lippincott, before starting his own publishing company in 1873, with the assistance of his sons, this Robert Barrie and George Barrie Jr.

The Barrie publishing house was very successful, and was internationally know as a publisher of fine art works, prints, and books. The Barrie publisher received medals at all the leading exhibitions, including the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the 1889 expo in Paris, in 1893 at Chicago, and in 1900 at Paris.

Robert Barrie was actively involved in the Paris art scene, in the late 1800s, and turn of the century.

As described in a 1904 Who's Who in Pennsylvania: "Of all the Americans now in Paris, few have a better knowledge of the serious side of French life and a higher respect for French art and industry than Mr. Robert Barrie, junior member of the firm of George Barrie and Son publishers, of Philadelphia. Mr. Barrie has made numerous visits to Paris during the past 15 years, some of them extending over six months, and during this time his relations with French artists have been most cordial and extensive."

Robert Barrie assembled this scrapbook to collect items related to his friendship with European and American artists and writers in the late 1800s and early 1900s

Condition:  All  items are bright and clean, with no foxing or dampstains. The calling cards and other items are glued to the scrapbook page, although the edges and margins of the calling cards are not glued down.  Only the left margins of the 1900 menu and the 1908 log abstract are glued down, so you can see the reverse sides of those 2 items. The left margin of the 1900 menu is scuffed. The sailing log abstract has a short, less-than-half-inch tear. The Marcel Baschet portrait is a wood engraving, although I am not certain if it is an original wood engraving or a processed engraving, although the reverse side of this portrait appears to be blank, according to what I can see of the small sections of this engraving that are not glued down.

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