Antoine Calbet Art
Antoine Calbet, a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel and François Émile Michel, Calbet also studied with the genre painter Édouard-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 watercolorist 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 Calbet painted a Scène de Brasserie. Calbet is perhaps known today, however, for his book illustrations, having taken over the commissions of the Czech artist Luděk 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 watercolors was held at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris in 1909, and another at the Galerie Graat in Paris in 1932.
20th Century Antoine Calbet Art
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Impressionist Antoine Calbet Art
Pastel
Mid-20th Century Realist Antoine Calbet Art
Aquatint
Mid-20th Century Realist Antoine Calbet Art
Aquatint
1890s Art Nouveau Antoine Calbet Art
Lithograph
1960s Antoine Calbet Art
Aquatint, Etching
1970s Pop Art Antoine Calbet Art
Handmade Paper, Aquatint, Etching
1970s Realist Antoine Calbet Art
Offset
Early 2000s Realist Antoine Calbet Art
Chalk, Pastel, Pencil, Cardboard
1850s Realist Antoine Calbet Art
Printer's Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
1970s Pop Art Antoine Calbet Art
Lithograph
1960s Realist Antoine Calbet Art
Lithograph
1910s Jugendstil Antoine Calbet Art
Lithograph
18th Century Old Masters Antoine Calbet Art
Gouache, Pastel
20th Century Contemporary Antoine Calbet Art
Ink, Pastel
19th Century Victorian Antoine Calbet Art
Watercolor
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Antoine Calbet Art
Pastel, Paper
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Antoine Calbet Art
Oil
1890s Post-Impressionist Antoine Calbet Art
Watercolor, Paper
1920s Antoine Calbet Art
Paper, Pencil