Adolphe Willette Art
French, 1857-1926
Adolphe Léon Willette was born in Châlons-sur-Marne on July 30, 1857. He studied for four years at the École des Beaux-Arts under Alexandre Cabanel. It gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France. Whether comedy or tragedy, trivial or political satire, his work is instinct with the profound sincerity of the artist. He set Pierrot upon a lofty pedestal among the imaginary heroes of France and established Mimi Pinson, frail, lovable and essentially good-hearted, in the affections of the nation. Willette is at once the modern Watteau of the pencil and the exponent of sentiments that move the more emotional section of the public. Always a poet and usually gay, fresh and delicate, in his presentation of idylls exquisitely dainty and characteristically Gallic, illustrating the more charming side of love, often pure and sometimes extremely materialistic. Willette frequently revealed himself as bitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being violent though at the same time a generous partisan of political ideas. He was furiously compassionate with love and pity for the people whether they are ground down under the heel of political oppression or merely the victims of unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment. There is charm even in his thrilling apotheosis of the guillotine and in the introduction into his caricatures of the figure of death itself. The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated press under the pseudonyms, Cemoi, Pierrot, Louison, Bebe and Nox, but more often under his own name. He illustrated Melandri's Les Pierrots and Les Giboulées d'avril, Le Courrier français and published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other works, in which he tells his stories in scenes. He decorated several brasseries artistiques with wall-paintings, stained glass, notably Le Chat Noir and La Palette d'or and he painted the highly imaginative ceiling for La Cigale music hall. His characteristically fantastic Parce Domine was shown in the Franco-British Exhibition in 1908. A remarkable collection of his works was exhibited in 1888. His V'almy is in Luxembourg, Paris. He passed away on February 4, 1926, in Paris, France.
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Artist: Adolphe Willette
Adolph Willette “Cacao Van Houten” Original 1896 Poster Chaix
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Dallas, TX
Willette- Maitres de L'affiche: Cacao Van Houten, original lithograph 1896, Impremie CHAIX. PL. 43 France, 1890-1919, paper
Willette: Cacao Van Houten
Original stone Lithograph on vélin paper 1896
Sheet Size: 15.75 x 11.4 in. / 39.5 x 29 cm
Printed by: Imprimerie Chaix 1896
In very good condition (A) unbacked,
This plate is from the famous set "Les Maitres de l'affiche"
The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" series was offered as a subscription series to collectors. Every month for 60 months, from December 1895 through November 1900, subscribers received by mail, 4 loose sheets (Maitres) with a cover sheet.
Willette's elegant vertical poster...
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1890s Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
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Paper
original lithograph
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This impression on thin wove paper was printed in 1903 for Gustave Geffroy's "La Vie Artistique". Sheet size: 6 1/2 x 4 3/8 inches (165 x 112 mm). Signed...
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Early 1900s Adolphe Willette Art
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Lithograph
1893 Exposition Internationale des Produits du Commerce et de l'Industrie
By Adolphe Willette
Located in PARIS, FR
In the realm of vintage poster art, Adolphe Willette's 1893 masterpiece for the Exposition Internationale des Produits du Commerce et de l'Industrie offers a captivating window into ...
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1890s Adolphe Willette Art
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Linen, Paper, Lithograph
Lady with Cupids and Dwarf - Lithograph by Adolphe Willette - 1906
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
Lady with Cupids and Dwarf is a Lithograph realized in 1906 by Willette (Adolphe Léon).
Hand-signed with pencil on the lower right corner.
Good condition with folding and consumed ...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Woman On Chariot - Drawing by Adolphe Willette - Late-19th century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
The Woman On Chariot By Dogs is a drawing in China Ink and pen on paper realized by Adolphe Willette in the Late 19th Century.
Very Good conditions.
Monogrammed.
Including a cardb...
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19th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Ink, Paper
Programme de Concert - Drawing by Adolphe Willette - Late-19th century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
Programme de Concert is a drawing in blue pastel on paper realized by Adolphe Willette in the Late 19th Century.
Very Good conditions.
Monogrammed.
Including a cardboard Passepart...
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19th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Lady - Drawing by Adolphe Willette - Late-19th century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
The Lady is a drawing in China Ink on paper realized by Adolphe Willette in the Late 19th Century.
Very Good conditions.
Monogrammed.
Including a Greyish cardboard Passepartout (6...
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19th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Ink, Paper
Ecole de Peinture - Drawing by Adolphe Willette - Late-19th century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
Ecole de Peinture is a drawing in China Ink on paper realized by Adolphe Willette in the Late 19th Century .
Good conditions.
Hand-signed.
The artwork is depicted through soft st...
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19th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
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Paper, Ink
Cleaning Nude - Lithograph by Adolphe Willette - Early 20th Century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
Cleaning Nude is an Original Lithograph realized by Willette (Adolphe Léon).
Good condition on a yellowed paper included a cardboard passpartout (33x25 cm).
Hand signed with sangui...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
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Lithograph
Characters - Drawing by Adolphe Willette - Late-19th century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
Characters is a Drawing in pen realized by the artist Willette (Adolphe Léon).
Signature on the lower right margin.
Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 1857, Châlons-sur-Marne – 4 Febru...
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19th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Lady - Drawing by Adolphe Willette - Late-19th century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
The Lady is a Drawing realized by the artist Willette (Adolphe Léon).
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout 34.5x26 cm.
Signature on the lower right margin.
Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 1857, Châlons-sur-Marne – 4 February 1926, Paris) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. Willette ran as an "anti...
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19th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
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Paper, Pencil
Nude of Woman - Lithograph by Adolphe Willette - Early 20th Century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an Original Lithograph realized by Willette (Adolphe Léon).
Good condition on a grey paper included a white cardboard passpartout (32.5x48 cm).
Address card for Sa...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Lithograph
Il Ressemble à Ernest - Etching by Adolphe Willett - Late-19th century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
Il Ressemble à Ernest is an Original Etching and Drypoint realized by Willette (Adolphe Leon).
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
signed on plate on the lower left corner and titl...
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19th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
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Etching
Praying Mucha - Lithograph by Adolphe Willette - Early 20th Century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
Praying Macha is an Original Lithograph realized by Willette (Adolphe Léon).
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand signed withpencil on the lower left corner.
Adolphe Léon Wil...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dangerous Jokes - Lithograph by Adolphe Willette - Early 20th Century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
Dangerous Jokes is an Original Lithograph realized by Willette (Adolphe Léon).
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand signed with blue pencil on the lower left corner.
Adolphe ...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Lithograph
Grace - Etching by Adolphe Willette - Early 20th Century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
Grace is an Original Etching and Drypoint realized by Willette (Adolphe Léon).
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (49x32 cm).
Titled "Grace!...Je suis une petite...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Etching
Risks and Temptations - Lithograph by Adolphe Willette - Early 20th Century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
Risks and Temptations is an Original Lithograph realized by Willette (Adolphe Léon).
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand signed with blue pencil on the lower left corner.
Ad...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Ballerina - Lithograph by Adolphe Willette - Late 19th century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
The Ballerina is an original lithograph realized by Adolphe Willette (1857-1926) in the late 19th century.
Good condition.
Adolphe-Léon Willette (Châlons-sur-Marne, 1857 - Parigi, ...
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Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Lithograph
A Little Poor Woman - Lithograph by Adolphe Willette - 20th Century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
A Little Poor Woman is a Lithograph realized by Adolphe Léon Willette ( 1857-1926).
Good condition included a cardboard passpartout (65x50 cm).
Hand-signed by the artist on the low...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Lithograph
A Little Poor Woman - Lithograph by Adolphe Willette - 20th Century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
A Little Poor Woman is an Original Lithograph realized by Adolphe Léon Willette ( 1857-1926).
Good condition included a cardboard passpartout (65x50 cm).
Hand-signed by the artist ...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Republic of the Transvaal-Lithograph by Adolphe Willett - 19th century
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Roma, IT
The Republic of the Transvaal is an original lithograph realized by Adolphe Willette (1857-1926) during the 19th century.
The original work is united to ...
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19th Century Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Lithograph
Adolphe Willette Lithograph Original Hand Signed Seven Deadly Sins Erotic Nude
By Adolphe Willette
Located in FR
Adolphe Willette Lithograph Original Hand Signed 'Le Banquet' erotic No 95
Well known for his version of The Seven Deadly Sins
Adolphe Léon Willette ...
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1910s Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Lithograph
Adolphe Willette Lithograph Original Hand Signed Seven Deadly Sins Erotic Nude
By Adolphe Willette
Located in FR
Adolphe Willette Lithograph Original Hand Signed erotic nude No 189
Well known for his version of The Seven Deadly Sins
Adolphe Léon Willette (30 Jul...
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1910s Art Nouveau Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Lithograph
"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne), " Lithograph after Drawing by Adolphe Willette
By Adolphe Willette
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne)" is a print watermarked PL BAS after a drawing by Adolphe Willette. It depicts a general with his army and a young girl.
15 3/4" x 12" art
23" x 19 1/4" frame
Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 1857 – 4 February 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. Willette ran as an "anti-semitic" candidate in the 9th arrondisement of Paris for the September 1889 legislative elections.
Biography
Willette was born in Châlons-sur-Marne.
He studied for four years at the École des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France. Whether comedy or tragedy, dainty triviality or political satire, his work is instinct with the profound sincerity of the artist. He set Pierrot upon a lofty pedestal among the imaginary heroes of France, and established Mimi Pinson, frail, lovable, and essentially good-hearted, in the affections of the nation.
Willette is at once the modern Watteau of the pencil, and the exponent of sentiments that move the more emotional section of the public. Always a poet, and usually gay, fresh, and delicate, in his presentation of idylls exquisitely dainty and characteristically Gallic, illustrating the more "charming" side of love, often pure and sometimes extremely materialistic. Willette frequently reveals himself bitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being a violent though at the same time a generous partisan of political ideas, furiously compassionate with love and pity for the people whether they be ground down under the heel of political oppression, or are merely the victims ot unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment. There is charm even in his thrilling apotheosis of the guillotine, and in the introduction into his caricatures of the figure of Death itself.
The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated press under the pseudonyms "Cemoi", "Pierrot", "Louison", "Bebe", and "Nox", but more often under his own name. He illustrated Melandri's Les Pierrots and Les Giboulles d'avril, Le Courrier français, and published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other works, in which he tells his stories in scenes in the manner of Busch. He decorated several "brasseries artistiques" with wall-paintings, stained glass, &c., notably Le Chat noir and La Palette d'or, and he painted the highly imaginative ceiling for La Cigale...
Category
1890s Academic Adolphe Willette Art
Materials
Black and White
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