Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Impressionist Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pastel
Early 2000s Realist Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Chalk, Pastel, Pencil, Cardboard
20th Century Contemporary Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink, Pastel
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pastel, Paper
19th Century Victorian Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1920s Symbolist Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pastel, Watercolor
1930s Art Deco Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
18th Century Old Masters Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Gouache, Pastel
Early 2000s Realist Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Chalk, Pastel, Cardboard, Pencil
Early 2000s Realist Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Chalk, Pastel, Cardboard, Pencil
1930s Realist Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Wood, Paper, Watercolor
1980s Contemporary Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pastel
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1890s Post-Impressionist Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Paper
1920s Antoine Calbet Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Pencil