Butterflies from the Gilded Age - Fully Customizable
Send your mail its way on colorful wings. These wonderful Art Nouveau butterflies from La Belle Époque have a special charm you can't resist. I think it may have something to do with those round little eyes looking right at you. Classy complementary color scheme of cadmium orange and viridian (blue green).Customize it with your own name and address. There's a wide choice of fonts and colors available, so play around and find the combination that's uniquely yours.
Matches the Verneuil Butterflies note cards and postage stamps available in my gallery. All put together, this is truly a wonderful set!
About the artist: Maurice Pillard-Verneuil studied under Art Nouveau master Eugene Grasset. An early interest in Japanese printmaking blossomed into a passion for Asian art after his visit to Southeast Asia. In love with nature and the natural world, he drew inspiration from plants, flowers, animals, insects and marine life.
About this artwork:This particular design is number 50 from a suite of 60 color lithographs after decorative Art Nouveau devices by Mucha, Verneuil and Auriol found in the book 'Combinaisons Ornementales se Multipliant à l'Infini à l'Aide du Miroir' (Decorative Combinations, Infinitely Multiplied with a Mirror) by George Auriol, pseudonym of Jean-Georges Huyot, journalist, poet, songwriter, painter and engraver. Published in the year 1900 by Librairie Centrale des Beaux Arts, Paris.
It has been carefully and lovingly prepared for print by a professional graphic artist using state-of-the-art software. It is a joy to bring the best art of previous centuries into our own for everyday use and enjoyment. I hope you will enjoy using these address labels as much as I enjoyed working on the design. It took me many hours to restore it to printable perfection, but it was, after all, a labor of love.
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