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Antique impressionist etching titled The Sleeping Beauty (aka Awakening) by French artist Antoine Calbet.
Antoine Calbet, 1860s Engayrac, France - …
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Antique impressionist etching titled The Sleeping Beauty (aka Awakening) by French artist Antoine Calbet.
Antoine Calbet, 1860s Engayrac, France - 1944 Paris, France.
Known for: Nude figure, pastoral landscape and genre painting, illustration.
A pupil of Alexandre Cabanel and Emile-François Michel, Antoine Calbet also studied with the genre painter Edouard Antoine Marsal. He made his public exhibition debut at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français in 1880, and continued to take part in the Paris Salons until 1940.
A gifted watercolourist as well as a portrait and genre painter, Calbet had a particular penchant for studies of languid female nudes. He also worked as a decorative painter, counting among his public commissions the decoration of several theatres, as well as the buffet restaurant in the Gare de Lyon in Paris and the restaurant La Grande Taverne in Dijon, for which he painted a Scène de Brasserie.
Antoine Calbet is perhaps known today, however, for his book illustrations, having taken over the commissions of the Czech artist Ludek Marold when the latter returned to Prague. Among the works illustrated by Calbet were editions of Emile Zola’s Madame Neigeon, Guy de Maupaussant’s Bel ami, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions and Paul Verlaine’s Fêtes galantes.
He also provided illustrations for magazine short stories, such as Henri de Régnier’s Le veuvage de Shéhérazade, published in the Christmas 1925 issue of L’Illustration. An exhibition of Calbet’s drawings and watercolours was held at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris in 1909, and another at the Galerie Graat in Paris in 1932.
Dimensions:
25.25" x 2.25" x 18.25" (W x D x H)
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- Dimensions
- 25.25ʺW × 2.25ʺD × 18.25ʺH
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- Early 20th Century
- Country of Origin
- France
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Etching
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- White
- Condition Notes
- some water spots, foxing. some water spots, foxing. less
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