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Daniel Vierge
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Daniel Urrabieta y Vierge (5 March - 10 May ) was a Spanish-born French illustrator who revolutionized the reproduction of illustrations.
Biography
He was born in Madrid. He went to Paris in to seek his fortune, where he became attached to Le Monde illustré in , just before the Franco-Prussian War broke out, and, like other artists in the paper, came under the powerful influence of Edmond Morin, the first newspaper draughtsman in France who sought to impart to drawings for journals the character of a work of art.
Daniel Urrabieta y Vierge (5 March 1851 – 10 May 1904) was a Spanish-born French illustrator who revolutionized the reproduction of illustrations.
Vierge's early drawings, therefore, partake greatly of Morin's style; including "The Shooting in the Rue de la Paix", "The Place d'Armes at Versailles", "The Loan", "The Great School-Fête of Lyons", "Anniversary of the Fight of Aydes" and "Souvenir of Coulmiers".
Vierge lost no time in proving the extraordinary vigour and picturesqueness of his art. Apart fr