Leonetto Cappiello, Original Vintage Newspaper Poster, Le Cri de Paris, 1901
By Leonetto Cappiello
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster for Le Cri de Paris Newspaper by Leonetto Cappiello dating from 1901. Harlequin visits Paris, Place de la Concorde, Hotel de la Marine and Hotel Crillon. ...
Paper
Misti, Original Belle Epoque Alcohol Poster, Mint Liquor, Cupid / Angel, 1895
By Ferdinand Edouard Ernest Mifliez (Misti)
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster for Liqueur Menthe Pastille liqueur distilled by E. Giffard and illustrated by Misti dating from 1895. Ferdinand Edouard Ernest Mifliez (1865 - 1922) also k...
Paper
Mich, Original Vintage Poster, Circuit Francais Peugeot, Bike Race, Lion, 1911
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster for Circuit Francais Peugeot created by Mich in 1911. Artist: Mich (1881-1923) Title: Circuit Français Peugeot Date: 1911 Size: 63 x 46.9 in. / 160 x 11...
Paper
$960Sale Price|20% Off
Original Vintage Exhibition Poster, 'Pham Ngoc Tuan Galerie De Beaune', 1971
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original Vintage Exhibition Poster, 'Pham Ngoc Tuan Galerie De Beaune', 1971 Of Vietnamese origin, Pham Ngoc Tuan, born in 1929, devotes his entire work to geometric abstraction. I...
Paper, Linen
Cinema Poster Orsi 1916 Monumental Parisian Avant-Garde Titled A Vous Belle
Located in Savannah, GA
This historically significant monumental size French film poster by Orsi is titled "A Nous la Belle" (To you Beautiful ), and advertises a showing at the "Orsi Théâtre des Arts". und...
Laminate, Plexiglass, Paper
Original Antique Poster Times Of The Day Repos De La Nuit Night Rest Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in London, GB
Original antique poster - Repos De La Nuit / Night's Rest - by the notable Czech illustrator, graphic artist and painter Alphonse Mucha (Alfons Maria Mucha; 1860-1939) from his serie...
Paper
Original Antique Poster Times Of The Day Eclat Du Jour Brightness Of Day Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in London, GB
Original antique poster - Eclat Du Jour / Brightness of Day - by the notable Czech illustrator, graphic artist and painter Alphonse Mucha (Alfons Maria Mucha; 1860-1939) from his ser...
Paper
Original Antique Chemins De Fer De L'Ouest Paris Etretat Railway Poster: Tennis
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel advertising poster published by French Western Railway - Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest - to promote the town of Etretat in Normandy in north west France - only fo...
Paper
$718Sale Price|20% Off
Original "Brasserie Schneider" vintage French poster art nouveau
Located in Spokane, WA
Art nouveau style, ready to frame. Fantastic antique original turn of the century original vintage poster for Brasserie Schneider.
Lithograph
Alphonse Mucha Pair of "Byzantine Heads" Lithographs
Located in New York, NY
A pair of French "Byzantine Heads" lithographs by Alphonse Mucha. The mastery evident in creating two archetypes of the female form against a decorative background confirms Mucha's a...
Paper
Alphonse Mucha "La Dame aux Camelias" Lithograph
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in New York, NY
Materials: Lithograph paper, Giltwood gesso frame Signed: Mucha Literature: A similar lithograph is pictured in: Alphone Mucha: The Complete Posters and Panels, by Rennert/Weill, 13,...
Paper
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "L'Artisan Moderne" Lithograph
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
A rare and well-sought variant of the celebrated poster "L'Artisan Moderne," by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, this special lithograph includes a seldom seen addition of the text reading...
Giltwood, Paper
Alphonse Mucha Pair of "Byzantine Heads" Lithographs
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in New York, NY
A pair of French "Byzantine Heads" lithographs by Alphonse Mucha. The mastery evident in creating two archetypes of the female form against a decorative background confirms Mucha's a...
Giltwood, Paper
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "Le Jockey" Lithograph
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
"In Paris from the autumn of 1899 to the summer of 1900, [Lautrec] seemed to live his former existence, making paintings and prints and maintaining contact with friends... In some wa...
Gesso, Giltwood, Paper
1898 Original Poster - Laurénol N°2 Désinfectant - Art Nouveau - Advertising
By Maurice Pillard Verneuil
Located in PARIS, FR
Verneuil was a student of Grasset, who is best remembered for his monumental work, L'Etude de la Plante, a book of floral ornamentation that is a key document of French Art Nouveau. ...
Linen, Paper, Lithograph
"Le Théâtrophone" Vintage Art Nouveau Lithograph Poster by Jules Cheret
By Jules Chéret
Located in East Quogue, NY
Its popularity spread to other cities but was eclipsed by the radio in 1932. art deco, french poster, art nouveau, french art, decorative poster, vintage poster, French art, art dec...
Lithograph, Paper
An ART-NOUVEAU "Années Folles" POSTER, France 1900
Located in PARIS, FR
An elegant poster for a grocery store in Lisieux, featuring a woman's portrait and various information on free-form paper cutouts, to be attributed, France 1900. The entire piece is ...
Paper, Glass, Wood
French Art Nouveau Portrait Poster in Ebonized Frame, 20th Century
Located in Queens, NY
French Art Nouveau style portrait poster featuring women in ebonized frames (associated pieces: 013684c, 013684d)
Ebony
French Art Nouveau Portrait Poster in Ebonized Frame, 20th Century
Located in Queens, NY
French Art Nouveau style portrait poster featuring women in ebonized frames (associated pieces: 013684b, 013684c) Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
Ebony
French Art Nouveau Portrait Poster in Ebonized Frame, 20th Century
Located in Queens, NY
French Art Nouveau style portrait poster featuring women in ebonized frames (associated pieces: 013684b, 013684d) Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
Ebony
$1,916Sale Price|20% Off
Original Vichy stone lithograph vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
It advertises a train route to Vichy, France. The poster has been archivally mounted on linen .
Lithograph
$1,500Sale Price|20% Off
Lefevre-Utile Lu Lu French cookie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
This is an Original Lithograph 1911 Vintage Poster. Excellent colors. No sunbleaching. Art Nouveau original.
Lithograph
$1,119Sale Price|20% Off
Original Liqueur Menthe Pastille vintage French drink poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Artist: Misti. Turn of the century, art nouveau style design. Printer: Vercasson.
Lithograph
$1,480Sale Price|20% Off
Original Pointe de Penmarch vintage French travel poster
By ALO (Charles Jean Hallo)
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1926 Pointe de Penmarch vintage French travel poster, linen-backed, Grade A- condition, ready to frame. The poster is in very good condition. The right-hand border has a ma...
Lithograph
$500Sale Price|23% Off
CLÉMENT CYCLES Lithograph, French Bicycle Poster, Vintage Advertising 52x38"
By Pal (Jean de Paléologue)
Located in Union City, NJ
CLÉMENT CYCLES is a limited edition fine art lithograph re-creation after the original French advertising poster created by PAL(Jean de Paleologue) for Fernand Clément Bicycle Co., F...
Lithograph
Original 1918 WWI French Poster by Maurice Romberg - Compagnie Algérienne
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1918 WWI French Poster by Maurice Romberg - Compagnie Algérienne Liberation Loan, linen-backed, Grade A- This exceptional and authentic 1918 vintage lithograph is a large-f...
Lithograph
Original MOULIN ROUGE French Cabaret movie poster, Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Spokane, WA
MOULIN ROUGE, original 1952 vintage movie poster; size: 47" x 63"; acid free archival linen backed and ready to frame full lithograph. Excellent condition. The poster is archival...
Lithograph
Original Antique French Poster, "Angelus Liquer", Leonetto Cappiello, Lithograph
By Leonetto Cappiello
Located in Dallas, TX
Antar, artist: Leonetto Cappiello. Size: 25 x 20. Year: 1907. Archival linen backed in very good condition; ready to frame. Original linen backed stone lithograph: Original vintage ...
Lithograph
Original Antique French Poster, "Eden Theatre", Jules Cheret, Lithograph
By Jules Chéret
Located in Dallas, TX
"Eden Theatre - Spectacle Varie" artist: Jules Cheret . Size: 28 x 23. Year: 1880. Archival linen backed in pretty good condition; ready to frame. Original linen backed stone lithog...
Lithograph
Original Antique French Poster, "Journee", Charles D. Fouqueray, Lithograph
Located in Dallas, TX
"Journee des Regions Liberees!" artist: Charles D. Fouqueray. Size: 45 x 30. Year: 1919. Archival linen backed in great condition; ready to frame. Original linen backed stone lithog...
Lithograph
$5,500
Martigny Vosges France Travel Poster by Lucien Métivet 1909 Color Lithograph
By Lucien Métivet
Located in Naples, Florida
An original color lithographic travel poster by French artist Lucien Métivet (1863–1932), created in 1909 and printed by Minot, Paris. The poster promotes Martigny, a resort destinat...
Lithograph
Original Antique French Poster, "Hunting w Hounds", Albert Guillaume, Lithograph
By Albert Guillaume
Located in Dallas, TX
artist: Albert Guillaume Size: 26 x 103. Year: 1900's. Archival linen backed in great condition; ready to frame. The posters of the artist Albert André Guillaume are still today tr...
Lithograph
Original "Salies de Bearn" vintage French railroad linen backed travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Salies-de-Béarn Vintage Poster – Authentic French Art Nouveau Travel Advertisement.
Lithograph
$3,080Sale Price|20% Off
Original Cabourg la plus belle plague vintage French beach poster
By Edouard Elzingre
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: CABOURG. "Casino. Grand Hôtel Noël & Pattard, propriétaires du Grand Hôtel à Monte-Carlo". Caubourg, la plus belle plage. Artist: Emile Elzingre 1859 - 1933. ...
Lithograph
$1,695
Original French early 20th Century Theatre poster of 'Le Reve'
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Le Reve (The dream) An original theatre poster designed by Theophile Alexandre Steinlen for Le Reve at the Academie Nationale de Musique 96 x 76cm. (incl. frame) New white wood fram...
Lithograph
$760Sale Price|20% Off
Original Antar, French Opera Theater vintage stone lithograph opera poster
By Georges Rochegrosse
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage French 1921 opera poster: Antar. Artist: Georges Rochegrosse. Stone lithograph linen backed in very fine condtion, ready to frame. The image features a medie...
Lithograph
$4,800
Original Antique French Poster, "Boulogne S.Mer ", Georges Redon, Lithograph
By Georges Redon
Located in Dallas, TX
Antar, artist: Georges Redon. Size: 49 x 90. Year: 1905. Archival linen backed in very good condition; ready to frame. Original linen backed stone lithograph: GEORGES REDON (1869-19...
Lithograph
Georges DE FEURE French Art Nouveau Glass Pitcher, ca1910
By Georges De Feure
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
French Art Nouveau Glass Pitcher by Georges de Feure, Paris, circa 1910.
Art Glass
$1,240Sale Price|20% Off
Cacao Van Houten original vintage French chocolate chromo-lithograph poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original CACAO VAN HOUTEN, LE Meilleur Chocolat a consommer liquide. Hot chocolate turn of the century antique vintage poster, unsigned. Printed by W. Hagelberg Akt in Berlin, G...
Lithograph
Original Antique French Poster, "Elle and Vire", Andre Roland, Lithograph
By Andre Roland 2
Located in Dallas, TX
"Elle & Vire The Freshness of the Fields on your table!" artist: Andre Roland. Size: 56 x 76. Year: 1960. Archival linen backed in decent condition; ready to frame. Original linen b...
Lithograph
$4,800
Original Antique French Poster, "Pneu Continental", Mich Michel Liebeaux, Litho
By Michel Liebeaux
Located in Dallas, TX
"Continental" artist: Mich, (Michel Liebeaux) 1881 - 1923 Size: 61 x 86. Year: 1907. Archival linen backed in ok condition; ready to frame. Original linen backed stone lithograph: Mi...
Lithograph
$1,036Sale Price|20% Off
Original Kola Marque, 1895 vintage French liquor poster by Jules Cheret
By Jules Chéret
Located in Spokane, WA
Original stone lithograph KOLA MARQUE, created by the artist Jules Cheret in 1895. Size: 16" x 23.5". Professional acid free archival linen backed and ready to frame. Full boa...
Lithograph
$1,295
Original La Journet du Poilu, 1915 vintage French World War 1 poster on linen.
By Lucien Jonas
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1915 French WWI Propaganda Poster "La Journée du Poilu" by Lucien Jonas. This poignant original lithograph, created in 1915 by the renowned French artist Lucien Jonas, serv...
Lithograph
Original Antique French Poster "Antar" by Georges Rochegrosse, Stone-Lithograph
By Georges Antoine Rochegrosse
Located in Dallas, TX
Theatre National de l'Opera. This is an Art Nouveau period French advertising poster for the opera Antar.
Lithograph
Emprunt Defense National "National Defense Loan" 1915 French WW1 linen-backed
By Francisque Poulbot
Located in Spokane, WA
Original French 1915 World War I poster titled "National Defense Loan" by Poulbot. Archival linen-backed original lithograph in very good condition, ready to frame. At 110 years ol...
Lithograph
Les Maîtres de l'Affiche #88 - Cabourg Late 19th C. Livemont Poster
By Henri Privat-Livemont
Located in Dekalb, IL
Les Maîtres de l'Affiche was a prestigious monthly publication issued between 1895 and 1900, showcasing reduced lithographic versions of iconic posters by leading artists of the Bell...
Paper
Les Maîtres de l'Affiche #151 - Eugénie Buffet Late 19th C. Stevens Poster
By Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
Located in Dekalb, IL
Artist: Léopold Stevens (1860-1935) Date: 1897 Medium: Lithograph Style/Movement: Art Nouveau Dimensions: 17.5" W x 21" H Additional Details: Art Nouveau concert poster advertising ...
Paper
Amphora Ceramic Vase by Nikolaus Kannhäuser, Art Nouveau, Circa 1898
By Nikolaus Kannhäuser, Amphora
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
Their work was strongly influenced by the very floral and stylized French Art Nouveau. Especially poster art by the likes of Alphonse Mucha and Paul Berthon in Paris were a significa...
Ceramic
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse “Le Jongleur de Notre Dame”
Located in Vienna, AT
Poster by Georges Antoine Rochegrosse, for “Le Jongleur de Notre Dame” (1902), by Jules Massenet. Color lithograph signed lower right in print: G. Rochegrosse. Framed behind glass wi...
Paper
In its sinuous lines and flamboyant curves inspired by the natural world, antique Art Nouveau furniture reflects a desire for freedom from the stuffy social and artistic strictures of the Victorian era. The Art Nouveau movement developed in the decorative arts in France and Britain in the early 1880s and quickly became a dominant aesthetic style in Western Europe and the United States.
ORIGINS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
ANTIQUE ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
Art Nouveau — which spanned furniture, architecture, jewelry and graphic design — can be easily identified by its lush, flowing forms suggested by flowers and plants, as well as the lissome tendrils of sea life. Although Art Deco and Art Nouveau were both in the forefront of turn-of-the-20th-century design, they are very different styles — Art Deco is marked by bold, geometric shapes while Art Nouveau incorporates dreamlike, floral motifs. The latter’s signature motif is the "whiplash" curve — a deep, narrow, dynamic parabola that appears as an element in everything from chair arms to cabinetry and mirror frames.
The visual vocabulary of Art Nouveau was particularly influenced by the soft colors and abstract images of nature seen in Japanese art prints, which arrived in large numbers in the West after open trade was forced upon Japan in the 1860s. Impressionist artists were moved by the artistic tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking, and Japonisme — a term used to describe the appetite for Japanese art and culture in Europe at the time — greatly informed Art Nouveau.
The Art Nouveau style quickly reached a wide audience in Europe via advertising posters, book covers, illustrations and other work by such artists as Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha. While all Art Nouveau designs share common formal elements, different countries and regions produced their own variants.
In Scotland, the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh developed a singular, restrained look based on scale rather than ornament; a style best known from his narrow chairs with exceedingly tall backs, designed for Glasgow tea rooms. Meanwhile in France, Hector Guimard — whose iconic 1896 entry arches for the Paris Metro are still in use — and Louis Majorelle produced chairs, desks, bed frames and cabinets with sweeping lines and rich veneers.
The Art Nouveau movement was known as Jugendstil ("Youth Style") in Germany, and in Austria the designers of the Vienna Secession group — notably Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich — produced a relatively austere iteration of the Art Nouveau style, which mixed curving and geometric elements.
Art Nouveau revitalized all of the applied arts. Ceramists such as Ernest Chaplet and Edmond Lachenal created new forms covered in novel and rediscovered glazes that produced thick, foam-like finishes. Bold vases, bowls and lighting designs in acid-etched and marquetry cameo glass by Émile Gallé and the Daum Freres appeared in France, while in New York the glass workshop-cum-laboratory of Louis Comfort Tiffany — the core of what eventually became a multimedia decorative-arts manufactory called Tiffany Studios — brought out buoyant pieces in opalescent favrile glass.
Jewelry design was revolutionized, as settings, for the first time, were emphasized as much as, or more than, gemstones. A favorite Art Nouveau jewelry motif was insects (think of Tiffany, in his famed Dragonflies glass lampshade).
Like a mayfly, Art Nouveau was short-lived. The sensuous, languorous style fell out of favor early in the 20th century, deemed perhaps too light and insubstantial for European tastes in the aftermath of World War I. But as the designs on 1stDibs demonstrate, Art Nouveau retains its power to fascinate and seduce.
There are ways to tastefully integrate a touch of Art Nouveau into even the most modern interior — browse an extraordinary collection of original antique Art Nouveau furniture on 1stDibs, which includes decorative objects, seating, tables, garden elements and more.
Add a welcome personal touch to your space and tie your distinctive interior scheme together by introducing antique and vintage posters to any and every room of your home.
In the late 19th century, following the advent of text-heavy posters printed from woodblocks for use in taverns and shop windows, hand-drawn poster art had become commonplace in regions such as France, England and the United States. Well-known illustrators were commissioned to produce decorative posters to advertise political campaigns, theatrical events, books, household goods and other items. Early poster artists used a printmaking technique called lithography, which sees drawings or paintings created on a stone (or metal) surface with an oil-based substance, such as a greasy crayon or tusche (an oily wash). The image is eventually affixed to the surface by means of a chemical reaction, and ink adheres to certain sections of the surface while non–image areas are made to repel the ink.
If you wanted a color lithograph in the early days, the number of stones prepared had to match the number of colors you commissioned for the poster. French painter Jules Chéret, widely known as the father of the modern poster, designed some of history's most popular lithographic posters that featured color. Today, Chéret’s art is highly collectible, along with original works by Czech painter and decorative artist Alphonse Mucha, whose posters advertising theatrical productions helped define Art Nouveau.
Over time, poster artists transitioned to more advanced techniques. Using silkscreens, woodblocks and photolithography, painters and illustrators printed larger quantities at a faster rate.
If you’ve finally tracked down that vintage movie poster, mid-century modern promotional travel poster or other work and you’re looking to find out if it is valuable, distinguishing between an original poster and a reproduction can be complicated. A professional appraiser can work with you on factors such as rarity, assessing the physical condition of your poster and authenticating your piece. For now, take care of your new acquisition because conserving posters is essential in helping them retain their value. A practical conservation method is to have the work mounted on archival, acid-free paper and thin artist’s canvas, then enclosing it in a sturdy frame. (And here is a primer on how to hang wall art, be it arranged gallery-style or otherwise.)
On 1stDibs, find all kinds of posters for your home today.