Antique Print-FLOWER DESIGN-PHEASANT-FOX-FOXGLOVE-ART NOUVEAU-Verneuil-1897

‘L’Animal dans la Decoration; [Faisans ordinaires …].’

Lithography with pochoir (stencil) handcoloring on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 34,5 x 46 cm. (13,6 x 18,1 inch). Image size: 23,5 x 35,5 cm. (9,3 x 14 inch).

Maurice Pillard Verneuil, L’Animal dans la décoration, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, Ed. E. Lévy Imprimerie Lemercier et cie, 1897, Aigles.

Made by ‘Maurice-Pillard Verneuil’ after an anonymous artist. Maurice Pillard-Verneuil (1869-1942) was a French lithographer, decorator and art critic. Born Maurice Pillard in 1869, the name of Verneuil does not appear until 1888. After the First World War he moved to Geneva in Switzerland; he founded a workshop and trained many students. He is interested in many fields, producing in various disciplines such as poster, ceramics or textiles. His art is inspired by Japanese art and forms of plant and animal worlds. Verneuil was a pupil of Eugene Grasset (1841-1917). The art nouveau patterns where design suggestions for wallpaper, stained glass, lamps, vases, mirrors, furniture, bookcovers etc.

Condition: Good, given age. Margin edges a little browned. A crease in the upper right corner. Minimal paper loss in the right margin (image not affected). General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: FLOWER DESIGN-PHEASANT-FOX-FOXGLOVE-ART NOUVEAU

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