Calavas Decorative Antique Print Eagle by Francis-Auburtin

Aigle by J. Francis-Auburtin
10 1/2 by 14 1/2 inches
DLD369 $75

From Paris at the height of the Art Nouveau period come these delightful prints from the Album de la Decoration collection, edited by A. Calavas. It includes superb chromolithographs by E.A. Seguy, Henry Lambert, Edouard Benedictus, P. Jouve, Gaston Greard, and many others. A select few prints have the vibrant colors characteristic of the pochoir process, wherein single layers of color were added by hand to a lithograph using a stencil, in a precursor of the silk screening technique which is now widely used for art prints. Most of the prints are vibrantly colored chromolithographs. Each print dates from circa 1900, and is on a creamy paper.