Romanian-born Hugo d’Alési (1849-1906) was one of the earliest artists to design posters for the French railway companies. They were printed using a process similar to chromolithography, called simile-aquarelle (“faux watercolor,”) that required up to 20 different colors to render the final image, making them much more richly printed, detailed and painterly than the travel posters from subsequent decades.
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| Posters designed by Hugo d’Alési in the 1880s and 1890s |
By some accounts, he designed “hundreds for the railway companies”. It was such an expensive process that it drove the artist into bankruptcy shortly before his premature death. D’Alési’s posters caught the eye of many in France and around the world, including Paul Cézanne, who commented, “I should like to do decorative landscapes like Hugo d’Alési, yes, with my small sensibility”.
Here below is a set of amazing posters designed by Hugo d’Alési in the 1880s and 1890s.
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| Chocolat-Meunier-Frères, circa 1880s |
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| P. L. M., Aix les Bains, 1889 |
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| Chemin de Fer d'Orléans, Excursions en Auvergne, 1894 |
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| La Turbie sur Monte-Carlo, PLM, 1894 |
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| Chemin de Fer de l'Est, Hte Engadine, St.Moritz, 1895 |
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| Lac Leman, 1895 |
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| Schweiz, Rhône-Thal, Jura - Simplon Bahn, 1895 |
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| Exposition du Centenaire de la Lithographie, 1897 |
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| Chemins de Fer d'Orléans, Touraine et Berry, Château de Valençay, 1898 |
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| Engrais Joudrain & Cie., 1898 |
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| Vichy - P.L.M., 1898 |
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| Advertisement for Nestlé's Milk, circa 1890s |
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| Chemin de Fer d'Orléans, Bordeaux, circa 1890s |
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| Chemin de Fer d'Orléans, L'Auvergne, circa 1890s |
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| Chemin de Fer de l'Est, De Paris à Venise, circa 1890s |
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| Chemin de Fer de Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée, L'Andalousie-Vue de Grenade, circa 1890s |
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| Chemin de Fer P.L.M., Tunisie, circa 1890s |
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| Chemins de Fer de L'Est, Plombières les Bains, Vosges, circa 1890s |
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| Chemins de fer P.L.M., Le Mont Blanc, circa 1890s |
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| Chemins de fer P.L.M., Le Puy (Haute-Loire), circa 1890s |
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| Chemins de Fer PLM, Simplon, Venise, Milan, circa 1890s |
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| Excursions au Mont-Blanc, Chemins de Fer P.L.M., circa 1890s |
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| Haldy, Besançon, Elles Règlent le Soleil, circa 1890s |
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| Jura-Simplon-Bahn, Schweitz, Oberland, circa 1890s |
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| Le Mont Cervin, P.L.M., circa 1890s |
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| Les Pyrénées, Cirque de Gavarnie, circa 1890s |
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| Mer de Glace, Mont Blanc, Savoie, circa 1890s |
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| P. L. M., Hyères, Golf Club, circa 1890s |
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| Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée, Hyères-Golf Club, Courses de Chevaux, circa 1890s |
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| Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée, Lac d'Annecy, circa 1890s |
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| Tour Métallique de Fourvières, circa 1890s |
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| Venise par Belfort, Bâle, Lucerne et le St. Gothard, circa 1890s |
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