Nori Malo-Renault
Honorine Césarine Tian better known by her pseudonym Nori Malo-Renault, was a French etcher, color printmaker. She was born in Marseille France on January 20, 1871 and died at Pau France on January 29, 1953.
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Born | Honorine Césarine Tian 20 janvier 1871 Marseille France |
Died | 29 janvier 1953 Pau France |
Nationality | French |
Other names | Honorine Renault (spouse) |
Occupation | Color engraver, printmaker |
Style | Art nouveau |
Children | Jean Malo-Renault |
Biography
Honorine Césarine Tian studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, in the studio of Luc-Olivier Merson. In 1897 she married the painter pastellist Émile Auguste Renault (1870-1938), known as Malo-Renault.

She helps her husband with the printing of his illustrations,[1] in particular for Le Serpent Noir de Paul Adam .Under the name of Nori Malo-Renault, she exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1897, then at the salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts from 1902 to 1912.
Works
Nori Malo-Renault produced etchings, sometime adding drypoint and aquatinte, for example for the print of La Femme au masque after a pastel by Edmond Aman-Jean whose five plates of copper (one by color) are kept in Paris at the Chalcographie du Louvre.
The original print Salomé, color etching, are also kept (three matrix of copper) at the Chalcographie du Louvre.
Some of his prints, mainly in color etchings, are kept in Paris in the prints and photography department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Works in public collections
- London British Museum
- Printed in full color of a print of her husband : little girl lying in bed, holding four dolls in her arms,
- Paris
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
- The Black Serpent by Paul Adam, ill. Malo-Renault and Nori Malo-Renault print on color
- Chalcography of the Louvre
- Salomé, original print (3 coper plates)
- La femme au masque (5 coper plates)
- Quimper,
- Museum of Fine Arts
- Marie-Annick original etching
- Musée départemental breton
- Museum of Fine Arts
Prints
- Salomé,[2] original color print and embroidered decoration on the cover of one book the play by Oscar Wilde.
- La Femme au Masque, after Edmond Aman-Jean, etching, drypoint and aquatint in color
- Marie-Annick,original etching in color and monochrom print.
- Le Petit café, etching in color 440 × 300 mm.
- Portrait of William Ewart Gladston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, monochrome etching after a lithography by John McLure Hamilton.
- Portrait of Fanny Charrin,[3] after a miniature by Augustin, etching in color.
- Breakfast or Little Girl and Japanese Doll, original etching in color ,
References
- British Museum
- Bibliothèque nationale de France:data: Notes from the Print and Photography Department of the National Library on Nori Malo-Renault[4]
- Chalcographie du Louvre,[5] inventory of engraved copper
- « Nori Malo-Renault », in: Bénézit Dictionary of Artists on line Oxford Index

- "Page Le Serpent Noir, Paul Adam, ill. Malo-Renault et mise au point des épreuves par Nori Malo-Renault". dx.doi.org. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- "Print and embroidered decoration: Salomé". Archived from the original on 2019-04-07.
- "Portait de Fanny Charrin".
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Note sur Nori Malo-Renault - au Département des Estampes de la BnF
- Chalcographie, liste cuivres des Malo-Renault

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