Alexandre Charpentier was a French sculptor, medalist, craftsman and cabinet-maker. He experimented with a wide variety of formats and materials—tin, marble, wood, leather and terra cotta work, the latter executed by ceramic artisan Emile Müller. Charpentier designed many sets of furniture. Many of his custom designs for fixtures (doorknobs, door plates, window handles and the like) were subsequently mass-produced and commercially sold. Several of Charpentier's works are part of the Musée d'Orsay collection.
La Fille au Violon
By Alexandre Charpentier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Fille au Violon Color lithograph, gypsograph with embossed publisher's stamp Signed and numbered in ink (see photo) From: L'Estampe Originale, Paris, Vol. VII Published by Andre M...
Lithograph
"Grande Tuilerie d’Ivry" from Les Maitres de l'Affiche
By Alexandre Charpentier
Located in Hinsdale, IL
CHARPENTIER, ALEX (1856 -1909) "Grande Tuilerie d’Ivry" Original lithograph from "Les Maitres de L'Affiche" series Printed by Imprimerie Chaix, Paris Bearing MDL stamp lower right, issue # 33, 1898. Plate #131 Unframed Size: 11 3/8 x 15 3/4”The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" series was offered as a subscription series to collectors every month for 60 months, from December 1895 through November 1900. The "Maitres de l'Affiche," were issued as separate numbered sheets, referred to as "plates". They were numbered, with the printers name "Imprimerie Chaix," in the margin at the bottom left hand corner, "PL.1" to "PL.240." In the margin at the bottom right hand corner of each, is a blind embossed stamp from a design of Cheret's. The smaller format and the fact the "Maitres" were a paid subscription series, allowed Imprimerie Chaix to use the latest state of the art printing techniques, not normally used in the large format posters due to cost. A very high quality of paper was used, where as the large format posters were printed on lesser quality newsprint, due to cost and a short expected life span. This explains why the quality of the printing, in the "Maitres de l'Affiche," usually far exceeds that of their larger counterparts. The text reads "Great Tileworks of Ivry, founded in 1854, Ivry-Port near Paris; the largest ceramics factory in the world for building, industry and art productions; Emille Muller stoneware; execution of works by masters of statuary; architectural facings; decorative sculpture; showroom and salesroom, 3 rue Halevy; the only tile able to bear the names Muller and Ivry; (tiles) guaranteed against frost" Given the commission for an extremely text heavy poster, the artist executes a masterful design. The angelic young boy holds the wares of this famous ceramics factory, against an abstract background awash in organic green hues. The handling of the immense text that flows from top to bottom in every available space shows great artistic skill, as the overall beauty of the design is intact. In 1989 the Metropolitan Museum of art acquired a stoneware plaque...
Lithograph
$2,200
Nell Horn. Program pour Le Theatre Libre. Saison 1980-91. May 25 1891
By Alexandre Charpentier
Located in New York, NY
Embossing (gaufrage) with typographical color printing. Fine impression with good embossing on simili-japon paper, printed to the edges of the sheet (as issued). The combination of techniqes is unusual and may be unique. Ref: Artistes et Theatre d'Avant-Garde Programmes illustres Paris 1890-1900 Aitken p 22 pl 11; Artists and the Avant-Garde Theatre in Paris 1887-1890 Boyer p.44 pl 9. Alexandre Charpentier was French sculptor, medalist, craftsman, and cabinet-maker. He experimented with a wide variety of formats and materials—tin, marble, wood, leather, and terra cotta work, the latter executed by ceramic artisan Emile Müller...
Lithograph
$720
H 39.5 in W 15.5 in
La Dame aux Camelias - Sarah Bernhardt (after) Alphonse Mucha, 1969
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in New York, NY
These beautiful and colorful lithographic posters were hand reproduced by the Mourlot Studio's Master Printer Henri Deschamps in 1969. They are not to be mistaken with later cheap digital and giclée reproductions. Ed. 1,500 In December of 1894, Mucha visited a print shop contracted to create a new advertising poster for a play featuring Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous actress in Paris at the time. Mucha volunteered to produce a lithographic poster within two weeks, and on January 1, 1895, the advertisement for the play Gismonda by Victorien Sardou was posted in the city, where it attracted much attention. Bernhardt was so satisfied with the success of this first poster that she signed a six-year contract with the artist. Written by Alexandre Dumas (son) when he was 23 years old, and first published in 1848, "La Dame aux Camélias...
Lithograph
'Yvette Guilbert, SCALA' — Fin de Siècle, Paris
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
BAC (Ferdinand Bach), 'Yvette Guilbert, Tous les Soirs SCALA', vintage color lithograph, 1893. Signed, dated, and titled in the stone. A superb, richl...
Lithograph
Divan Japonais
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
Color lithograph. Printed by Ancourt, Paris. The Divan Japonais was a small café-concert at 75 rue des Martyrs, Paris, where Yvette Guilbert began her career. This is Toulouse-Lautr...
Color, Lithograph
$256
H 10.24 in W 7.88 in D 0.04 in
La Monaca - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
By Umberto Brunelleschi
Located in Roma, IT
La Monaca is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La Fo...
Lithograph
$279
H 10.24 in W 7.88 in D 0.04 in
The Lovers - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
By Umberto Brunelleschi
Located in Roma, IT
The Lovers is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La F...
Lithograph
$232
H 10.24 in W 7.88 in D 0.04 in
The Courtship - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
By Umberto Brunelleschi
Located in Roma, IT
The Courtship is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by L...
Lithograph
Exhibition of the Rose (Plate 74)
By Carlos Schwabe
Located in Greenwich, CT
Exhibition of the Rose (Plate 74) is an 1887 lithograph of Carlos Schwabe's poster, printed at Imprimerie Chaix by Jules Chéret and included in the fame...
Paper, Lithograph
Cirage Jacquot et Cie
By Lucien Lefevre
Located in Greenwich, CT
Cirage Jacquot et Cie is an 1886 chromolithograph of Lucien Lefèvre's delightful poster, printed at Imprimerie Chaix under the direction Ernest Maindron...
Paper, Lithograph
$279
H 10.24 in W 7.88 in D 0.04 in
Nude - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
By Umberto Brunelleschi
Located in Roma, IT
Nudeis a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Contes et Nouvelles” by La Fontaine (Gi...
Lithograph
$232
H 10.24 in W 7.88 in D 0.04 in
Nude - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
By Umberto Brunelleschi
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La Fontain...
Lithograph
$6,500
H 42.875 in W 29.25 in
"Fashionable Boulevard Montmartre, " Original Lithograph Poster by Pierre Brenot
By Pierre Laurent Brenot
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fashionable Boulevard Montmartre" is an original lithograph poster by Pierre Laurent Brenot. This piece depicts four figures in fashionable costumes in a variety of dynamic poses. T...
Lithograph
$1,700
H 15.75 in W 12 in
"H. L'Illusion (L'Estampe Moderne I), " Color Lithograph
By Henri Bellery-Desfontaines
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"H. L'Illusion (L'Estampe Moderne I)" is an original color lithograph by Henri Bellery-Desfontaines. This piece depicts a nude child before a dream-like woman in a blue translucent robe. This piece was published in the French Art Nouveau publication L'Estampe Moderne. Signed in plate. 15 3/4" x 12" art Henri Bellery-Desfontaines , born with Paris in 1867 and dead the October 6th 1909, is a French Noveau artist Jack-of-All- Trades, who produced tables, illustrations, posters, lithographies, drawings of carpet, pieces of furniture and banknotes, and even dabbled with decoration & architecture. In the 1900s, Paris was the perfect place for a group of young artists influenced by artistic currents like neogothic style or symbolism. Most of them started as painters and they switched later to decorative arts, attracted by the idea of an ever-present art, a lifeless art, a total art. Henri Bellery-Desfontaines was a member of this group and he started as as painter in Pierre-Victor Galland’s atelier. He entrusted him the decorative motifs which would frame Panthéon de Paris' drawings: Maillot, Bonnat, Humbert and specially Jean-Paul Laurens, who proposed him to join his atelier in l’École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. With him, he decorated l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris or Le Salon Lobau, Henri Bellery-Desfontaines is thought to have Luc-Olivier Merson (1846-1920) as a teacher. During his years as a student, he started to illustrate magazines and books of tales and in 1895, Bellery-Desfontaines opted rapidly for illustration, probably due to financial problems, and he participated in magazines such as L’Image, L’Estampe Moderne or L’Almanach des Bibliophiles. This year, the Salon des Artistes Français hosted one of his design of tapestry. From 1900 on, he gradually evolved toward an ambitious decorative artist, making tapestries and furniture for rich leaders and patrons. Bellery-Desfontaines was an important artist of his epoch, and he took part in numerous events like Bal de...
Lithograph
embossed engraving
By Alexandre Charpentier
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: embossed engraving. Printed in 1897 and published in London for The Studio. Image size: 5 x 3 3/8 inches (130 x 85 mm). Sheet size: 11 x 7 5/8 inches (282 x 193 mm). This imp...
Engraving