Louis Anquetin Prints – Paris Nights, Cafés & Fashioned Figures
Louis Anquetin prints use strong outlines and broad colour to give streets, cafés and individual figures a clear arrangement. Artificial light and decorated clothing introduce smaller accents within those larger divisions. Explore the collection alongside Paris wall art, figurative prints and Post-Impressionist art.
A glowing street beneath deep blue colour
Avenue de Clichy, Evening looks past foreground figures towards a crowded route and hanging lights. A dark tree and tall lamp divide the upper space. Warm illumination interrupts the cool setting, keeping the street’s activity readable beneath the broad night colour.
Faces gathered around the central table
Bruant’s Interior, Le Mirliton fills the café with closely placed figures, bright clothing, hats and decorative objects. The central pale-green dress provides one strong shape within the crowd. Repeated faces and coloured accents carry attention across the densely occupied room.
A profile beneath the sweeping canopy
Young Woman with Parasol places the sitter’s face and dark clothing before a large warm parasol. Fine hat details interrupt its broader curved shape. The close crop gives a few strong contours more prominence than the many smaller encounters of the café scene.
Related artists and collections
Compare Parisian gatherings in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, fashionable figures in Isaac Israëls and decorative outlines in Paul Ranson. Further Paris prints follows the public settings, while Post-Impressionist art develops the relationships between strong edges, colour and recognisable subjects.
Read more in our Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Parisian subjects.