A painter, and important printmaker, Laboureur learnt wood engraving with August Lepère and colour lithography with Toulouse-Lautrec in the later 1890’s, but his fame rests on his mature prints in cubistic style.

After more than a decade of extensive travels in Europe and North America, Laboureur returned to France in 1911. After meeting Apollinaire and Marie Laurencin he adopted the cubist aesthetic.

In 1916 Laboureur took up line engraving, with which technique he is most associated. He was one of the few French artists to work in this medium at that period.

A dandy in his person, Laboureur adapted Cubism into a graceful, whimsical, idiosyncratic, personal style.

Monogrammed in the stone, signed in pencil and numbered 6/25. On Van Gelder Zonen cream laid paper. A little time-stained in the large margins.