Friday 23 December 2022

French Travel Posters - part 1

During the second half of the 19th century, the development of transportation enabled a strong increase in tourism in Europe. Timetables decorated with small black and white engravings were displayed in railway stations.

As early as 1890, the railway companies put up the first real travel posters, inviting travellers to visit historical sites and bucolic landscapes.

Hugo d’Alési was the most prolific creator of travel posters during the Belle Epoque. Working in a similar style, Henri Tanconville also designed a series of travel posters.

At the turn of the century, a different approach to travel posters emerged - from then on, a single image with shorter text became the norm.

From the 1920s. Poster artists abandoned the romanticism and arabesques of the Art Nouveau style in favour of geometric and monumental forms borrowed from Cubism and Futurism and embraced the Art Deco style.


This is part 1 of a 7-part series on French Travel Posters:


1893 Montreux, Chemin de fer Territet-Glyon aux
 Rochers de Naye
artist: Peter Balzer

c1895 Le Tréport
artist: Henri Gray

c1895 Le Tréport-Mers, Chemin de fer du Nord
artist: Henri Gray

c1895 Station Thermale Lamalou les Bains
artist: M. Pallandre

c1895 Vals-les-Bains Ardèche P.L.M.
artist: Frédéric Hugo d'Alesi

P.L.M. posters

Founded in 1857, P.L.M. (Paris to Lyon and Méditerranée Railway Company) was the largest of the private French railway companies. Until 1937 P.L.M. printed hundreds of travel of now highly collectible posters. Five private railway companies shared the French market: P.L.M., Chemins de fer d’Orléans et du Midi, Chemins de fer du Nord, Chemins de fer de l”Est, and Chemins de fer de l’Ouest. The Companies merged in 1937 to create S.N.C.F.


c1895 Voyages à Prix Réduits
artist: Gustave Fraipont

1896 Excursions en Normandie & Bretagne
artist: Georges Meunier

1900 Menton
 artist: Frédéric Hugo d'Alesi
 

1900 Vichy PLM
artist: Henri Ganier Tanconville

c1900 Grottes et Cascades de Baume
Chemins de Fer de Paris Lyon Méditerranée
artist: Henri Tanconville

c1900 Cie de Navigation Mixte & Touache
artist: Frédéric Hugo d'Alesi

c1900 Chemins de fer du Midi
Lourdes
artist: Frédéric Hugo d'Alesi

1900c Chemins de Fer de Paris Lyon Méditerranée
Grottes & Cascade de Baume
artist Henri Tanconville

c1900 Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest et de Brighton
artist: René Péan

c1900 Brides-les-Bains et Salins-Moutiers
P.L.M. Savoie
 artist: Henri de Taconville

c1900 Allevard les Bains
Billets à Prix Réduits
P.L.M.
artist: 
Frédéric Hugo d’Alesi

c1900 Lac D'Annecy
artist: 
Frédéric Hugo d’Alesi

c1900 Le Mont-Blanc
artist: 
François Charles Cachoud

c1900 Le Mont-Blanc en Chemin de Fer
artist: Georges Meunier

c1900 Menton
artist: 
Frédéric Hugo d’Alesi

c1900 San Salvador - Pres Hyères
artist: 
Frédéric Hugo d’Alesi

c1900 Vichy
Billets à Prix Réduits.
artist: Louis Tauzin

c1900 Vichy - Chemins de fer PLM
Billets a Prix Réduits
artist: Ploz

1901 Evian
Chemins de fer Paris-Lyon-Méditérranée
artist: Henri Ganier Tanconville

1902 Gorges du Fier Près Annecy
(Artist unknown)

1903 Cie. Gle. de Navigation sur le Lac Leman
artist: Anton Reckziegel

c1903 Grottes de la Balme, Dauphiné
PLM
artist: Marce Jacquier

1905 Paris Lyon  Mediterranee
Sens
artist: Henri Polart

c1905 Les Vosges, Vallée de Gérardmer
artist: Frédéric Hugo d'Alesi

c1905 Littoral de la Méditterranée - P.L.M.
artist: Henri Ganier Tanconville

c1905 Paris - Lyon - Méditerranée
 Mont Blanc, Chamonix
artist: H.J

c1905 Royat
Chemins de fer de Paris. Lyon. Méditerranée
(artist unknown)

1906 Chemin de fer Électrique du Valais à Chamonix
artist: Jean-Édouard Ravel

1907 La Creuse, La Sedelle à Crozant
Chemin de fer d' Orléans
artist: Coulange Lautrec

c1910 Auvergne
 Chemin de Fer d'Orléans
artist: Moreno

c1910 Bretagne
Chemin de Fer d'Orléans
artist: Moreno

c1910 Cauterets
Chemins de Fer d'Orléans & du Midi
artist: Constant Duval

c1910 Gèneve et Le Mont-Blanc
artist: Mario Borgoni 

c1910 Laon
Chemins de Fer du Nord et de L'Est
artist: Carot


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