Original Antoine Calbet Etching | Pencil Signed Etching | Confidence

Original ANTOINE CALBET Pencil Signed Etching titled Confidence.
 
Details:
ANTOINE CALBET, French (1860-1944)
“Confidence” 
pencil signed 'A. Calbet' (lower right)
“Genuine Etching” Certification attached
Unframed
 
Biography
Engayrac 1860 - Paris 1944
 
Antoine Calbet was a member of the Société des Artistes Français and exhibited his paintings and drawings regularly from 1880. He is mostly known for his genre works and for his watercolours. He also established a reputation as an illustrator, most notably his work for L'Aphrodite by Pierre Louys and also achieved a silver medal at the 1900 Paris Exhibition.
 
A pupil of Alexandre Cabanel and Emile-François Michel, Antoine Calbet also studied with the genre painter Edouard 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 watercolourist 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 he painted a Scène de Brasserie. 
 
Antoine Calbet is perhaps known today, however, for his book illustrations, having taken over the commissions of the Czech artist Ludek 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 watercolours was held at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris in 1909, and another at the Galerie Graat in Paris in 1932.