Leonetto CAPPIELLO (1875-1942) Les Sentiers de la Vertu aux Nouveautes.
French illustration poster from 70 dessins de Cappiello published in 1905 by H. Floury in Paris.

This poster artist and illustrator of Italian origin (Livorno 1875-1942) sketches his characters with a lively, graceful and full of ease.
He is a portraitist and caricaturist of crunchy character actors, writers, figures of the big world, political personalities .... "To fix the ridicule of people, in a drawing or a writing, it is not necessary to exaggerate it, it is enough to show it".

Cappiello became famous for having innovated in the art of caricature, then, for having invented the "modern poster".
Cappiello is considered, following Jules Chéret, as the renovator of the French poster.

The young Cappiello studied in Livorno and published in Italy, at the age of twenty, a first album of caricatures.
Settled in 1898 in Paris, where he began his career as a cartoonist, he collaborated with many newspapers, including Le Rire, Le Sourire, L'Assiette au beurre, Le Cri de Paris.
A year later, in 1899, he achieved enormous success by publishing an album, Nos actrices, portraits synthétiques, published by La Revue blanche.

Dimensions: 11" by 15"
Artist Name: Leonetto Cappiello
Literature: 70 dessins de Cappiello published in 1905 by H. Floury in Paris
Medium: poster
Circa: 1905

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