RESERVED: SUMMER NUDE
Original painting by ANTOINE CALBET (1860-1942)
Watercolour behind glass, in a gorgeous vintage frame - framed size 39 × 46.5 cm
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Antoine Calbet was a French realist painter, engraver, illustrator and lithographer born in 1860 and one of the major figures of academic realism of the Third Republic.
A pupil of Alexandre Cabanel and Emile-François Michel, Calbet also studied with the 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, 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.
His work can be seen in French public collections in the Musée d'Orsay, Musée du Petit Palais, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Agen, the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, as well as the Dallas Museum of Art.
Calbet is well known for his book illustrations, including editions of Emile Zola’s Madame Neigeon, Guy de Maupaussant’s Bel ami, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions and Paul Verlaine’s Fêtes galantes. 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.
Original painting by ANTOINE CALBET (1860-1942)
Watercolour behind glass, in a gorgeous vintage frame - framed size 39 × 46.5 cm
Signed
Free UK shipping included with purchase price
Please get in touch for international shipping costs
Antoine Calbet was a French realist painter, engraver, illustrator and lithographer born in 1860 and one of the major figures of academic realism of the Third Republic.
A pupil of Alexandre Cabanel and Emile-François Michel, Calbet also studied with the 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, 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.
His work can be seen in French public collections in the Musée d'Orsay, Musée du Petit Palais, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Agen, the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, as well as the Dallas Museum of Art.
Calbet is well known for his book illustrations, including editions of Emile Zola’s Madame Neigeon, Guy de Maupaussant’s Bel ami, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions and Paul Verlaine’s Fêtes galantes. 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.
Original painting by ANTOINE CALBET (1860-1942)
Watercolour behind glass, in a gorgeous vintage frame - framed size 39 × 46.5 cm
Signed
Free UK shipping included with purchase price
Please get in touch for international shipping costs
Antoine Calbet was a French realist painter, engraver, illustrator and lithographer born in 1860 and one of the major figures of academic realism of the Third Republic.
A pupil of Alexandre Cabanel and Emile-François Michel, Calbet also studied with the 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, 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.
His work can be seen in French public collections in the Musée d'Orsay, Musée du Petit Palais, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Agen, the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, as well as the Dallas Museum of Art.
Calbet is well known for his book illustrations, including editions of Emile Zola’s Madame Neigeon, Guy de Maupaussant’s Bel ami, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions and Paul Verlaine’s Fêtes galantes. 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.