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Leonetto Cappiello
(6th Apr, 1875 - 2nd Feb, 1942)
"Concours de Beauté"
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Gérard Blot
Paris, musée d'Orsay, conservé au musée du Louvre
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Keywords:
competition
spectator
man
sitting
woman
interior scene
figure study
group
contemporary costume
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About the artwork
Title:
"Concours de Beauté"
Periods:
19th century
20th century
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
Techniques:
beige paper
blacklead
Dimensions:
562 x 882
Inventory number:
RF40473-recto
About the author(s)
Author:
Leonetto Cappiello
Born:
6th Apr, 1875
Dead:
2nd Feb, 1942
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Leonetto Cappiello
(9. April 1875 in Livorno, Italy – 2. February 1942 in Cannes, France) was an Italian and French poster art designer who lived in Paris. He is now often called 'the father of modern advertising' because of his innovation in poster design. The early advertising poster was characterized by a painterly quality as evidenced by early poster artists Jules Chéret, Alfred Choubrac and Hugo D'Alesi. Cappiello, like other young artists, worked in way that was almost the opposite of his…
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