« I have been walking from rue de Sèvres to the Grand Palais (…) The old mask, modeled like the beautiful van Dyck sketching of a child ; the “Italian corner” at the end of rue Monsieur ; the strong shadows cast by tall trees on the wall ; the Seine with its full gray twirls of melted metal ; the colonnades in the cold shade. I am now under the spell of vigorous, almost monochromatic accents …  »

« I woke up early these last few days, to draw the Hôtel de Ninon de Lenclos. Yesterday afternoon I started the porch of the Hôtel de Lamoignon, but the light wasn’t there.  »

Rue de Beaujolais

Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier published two engraving books on the Old Paris.

• one in 1928 (etchings)
• the other in 1930 (lithographies), with an American edition

Self-portrait