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ANTOINE CALBET (1860-1944)
Jeune femme debout tenant une raquette
signed 'A. Calbet' (lower left)
black chalk and watercolour, heightened with white gouache
19¾ x 13 1/8 in. (50.2 x 33.2 cm.)
Jeune femme debout tenant une raquette
signed 'A. Calbet' (lower left)
black chalk and watercolour, heightened with white gouache
19¾ x 13 1/8 in. (50.2 x 33.2 cm.)
Exhibited
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 'Nineteenth Century French Drawings', 15 June-15 July, 1983, No.48.
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Further details
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.