Category: French
Illustrations right out of the Parisian jazz age with a saxophone lingering behind somewhere. All of these being from 1919. André Édouard Marty, illustrator (1882-1974).
Art Déco animals that will never bite. Vases by French artist Jean-Simon Peynaud. (1869-1952)
Pictures of flowers to cover the walls of your bedroom with so you can pretend you are in a greenhouse. From Eugène Grasset’s “La Plante et ses applications ornementales sous la direction.” Printed in Paris in 1896.
19th century people feeling grand. French. Eugène Lami, artist. Living from 1800 to 1890, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. All of these with Queen Victoria though he painted other people too.
Décor of the ancients seen through a Prussian/Parisian haze. Plates from Jakob Ignaz Hittorff’s “Restitution du temple d’Empédocle à Sélinonte,” which was published in Paris in 1851. Started out doing drafting in the Atelier of Charles Percier.
Ormolu sphinxes, some Egyptian Revival and others not, any of which would lend your front hall an imposing air. Probably all French.
Pochoir prints so amazing the king of Bulgaria would have every car in the royal train redone. Art Déco. From Maurice-Pillard Verneuil’s 1926 “Kaleidoscope.”
The sun in an almost impressionist sky. Landscapes painted by French artist Charles-François Daubigny (1817-1878). Member of the Barbizon school.
Spring series public (free) post for Sunday, May 5th. Five more wonderful plates from Albert Racinet’s wonderful “L’Ornement Polychrome” (1869-1873). Link below.
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