Insectes, Pl. 17: Abstract Decorative Patterns

Seventeenth plate of portfolio with a collection of twenty pochoir pattern plates, titled "Insectes: vingt planches en phototypie coloriées au patron donnant quatre-vingts insectes et seize compositions décoratives" (Insects: twenty plates with colored phototypes with patterns with eighty insects and sixteen decorative compositions), created by Émile-Allain Séguy and published in Paris by Tolmer Éditeur, probably in the 1920s. The plate features four abstract ornamental patterns inspired on the natural beauty of insects, providing what Séguy considered a successful example of the application of their scientific study in artistic creation, resulting in colorful designs likely intended for textiles or wallpapers. The first pattern is made up of an undulating, vertical garland, colored with yellow and blue, and with alternating semi-abstract grasshoppers, colored with green and shades of purple, and with long, scrolling anthens of black and green color, on a black ground. The second design is made up of semi-abstract black dragonflies (?) colored with shades of blue, on a green background with semi-abstract leaves colored with white and yellow. The third design is made up of alternating dragonflies with thin, long, green bodies, and white and yellow wings with blue and green details, on a background featuring an abstract pattern executed with purple, pink, black, and white. The fourth design is made up of semi-abstract beetle colored with green and shades of blue, on a purple background with undulating, black tree trunks with white creases.