Antoine Calbet - sleeping beauty

Beautiful color engraving by the French artist Antoine Calbet (1860-1944). He was a student of Alexandre Cabanel and Emile-François Michel and also studied with the genre painter Edouard Antoine Marsal. In 1880 he made his debut at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français and until 1940 he took part in the Paris Salons.
Calbet was a gifted watercolourist as well as a portrait and genre painter and had a particular predilection for studies of languid female nudes. He also worked as a decorative painter and included among his public commissions the decoration of several theaters, as well as the buffet restaurant at the Gare de Lyon in Paris and the restaurant La Grande Taverne in Dijon, for which he painted a Scène de Brasserie.
Antoine Calbet is perhaps known today for his book illustrations, having taken over commissions from Czech artist Ludek Marold when he returned to Prague. Works illustrated by Calbet included 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 short stories in magazines, such as Le veuvage de Shéhérazade by Henri de Régnier, published in the Christmas 1925 issue of L'Illustration. In 1909 an exhibition of Calbet's drawings and watercolors was held at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris and in 1932 at the Galerie Graat in Paris.
Dimensions: 27x34cm and with frame 34x45x2cm
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