The railway industry was the biggest commissioner of illustrated posters. They typically promoted its vast network that kept expanding over the course of the century resulting in thousands of stations, each with a destination in need of promotion. From the Puy Mary in the Mount of Cantal to the suburbs of Baghdad, dozens of railway companies were fighting to pack their carriages with keen travelers. In France the PLM (Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean), the Paris-Orléans which acquired the Midi line to become the PO-Midi, the Eastern, Western and Northern Railway Companies and the International Sleeping-Car company competed for half a century to get a share of France’s growing trainline market. The pioneering studios of François Hugo d’Alési hosted artists such as Julien Lacaze, Constant Duval, Roger Broders, Pierre Commarmond, Paul Emile Champeix, Charles Hallo (Alo) advertised the charms of the French terroir one train station at a time until almost every town had their own poster. During the 1920s, the art-deco movement was reflected in the style of many posters of this time with purple shadows, sun-kissed red, orange and tawny colours being fashionable. The Japanese influence of Henri Rivière became the signature of the Brittany school. Every train station in France was an opportunity for companies to compete through the successive spring/summer and autumn/winter campaigns. Waiting rooms, platform shelters and halls were all fitted with standardised poster billboards for which the French state collected taxes under the 1881 law that regulated the right to post and advertise. Everyone could now enjoy the pleasure of 1st, 2nd and 3rd class comfort for the price of a ticket. In the 1890s, posters sung the praise of spending winter in Nice, Biarritz or the Bay of Arcachon. Spas and mountain resorts became national landmarks in a time that encouraged hedonistic pastimes as a way of life. Brittany was now a train ride away and Brest, which was previously only accessible by stagecoach, was now connected by the western railway company. The French terroir was now for all to see and enjoy, with its charming towns, bustling cities and picturesque villages, the racing tracks of the Gulf of Morbihan or the Saint-Malo city ramparts. At the turn of the century the whole of France was seemingly invited overnight to visit the beaches of Trestrignel and Dinard. Fix Masseau and Joseph de la Nézière were illustrating an even more exotic dream, the Orient-Express that would take you to Mesopotamia and the Middle-East. Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Libya were now but a train-ride away or could be reached with a boat-and-train end-to-end ticket. The exotic East was now on Europe’s doorstep, with countries better known for their flowers and honey, archeological wonders, ancient history, sciences and mysterious tales were expertly invoked by artists such as d'Aboville, known as Dabo, the British Augustus Osborne Lamplough who painted the Nile in Aswan or the Pyramids on the Giza Plateau. Japan was also regularly portrayed with its countryside and modern railways at a time when posters were also widely used for diplomatic purposes. Propaganda was never far away.
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Original vintage travel poster created by Geo Dorival in 1913, Excursions in Normandy - The mare of Criqueboeuf - State Railways - Excursions in Normandy - Seaside Resorts of the English Channel
Printed by: Cornille & Serre - IMP, Paris
Printing type: Lithography
Dimensions: 41.3 x 29.7 inches
Linen backed
Condition A+
Original vintage travel poster created by Charles-Jean Hallo in 1923, Circuit du Vercors - Pont-en-Royans - PLM - Paris Lyon Méditerranée - Automobile excursion services around Grenoble
Printed by: Cornille & Serre - IMP, Paris
Print type: Lithograph
Dimensions: 41.7 x 30.3 inches
Linen backed
Condition A+
Original vintage travel poster created by Roger Soubie in 1922, Dijon - Capital of Burgundy - Paris Lyon Mediterranée - PLM
Printed by: Cornille & Serre - IMP, Paris
Printing type: Lithograph
Dimensions: 41.7 x 30.3 inches
Linen backed
Condition A
Original vintage travel poster created by Louis Tauzin in 1910, Les Vosges - Gerardmer - Chemins de Fer de l'Est
Printed by: IMP. F. Champenois
Printing type: Lithograph
Dimensions: 41.3 x 29.3 inches
Linen backed
Condition A+
Original vintage travel poster created by Roger Soubie in 1920, Les Aiguilles d'Arves - La Maurienne - PLM - Paris Lyon Méditerranée - Automobile service Grenoble - Saint Jean de Maurienne
Printed by: Cornille & Serre, Paris
Printing type: Lithograph
Dimensions: 42.7 x 31.1 inches
Linen backed
Condition A+
Original vintage travel poster created by Charles-Jean Hallo in 1920, Dinant-sur-Meuse - Rocher Bayard - Northern Belgian Railways
Printed by: L. Serre & Cie, Paris
Printing type: Lithography
Dimensions: 39.2 x 24.8 inches
Linen backed
Condition A
Original vintage travel poster realised by Charles Hallo in 1925, Morgat - Bretagne
Printed by : Lucien Serre
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 41.3 x 29.1 inches
Linen backed
Condition A
Original vintage travel poster created by J.A. Grün in 1920, Le Touquet Paris-Plage - Northern Railway
Printed by: Cornille & Serre, Paris
Printing type: Lithography
Dimensions: 41.5 x 28 inches
Linen backed
Condition A
Original vintage travel poster by Constant Duval from 1923, The castle and village of Beynac - On the Dordogne - Automobile circuits - Orléans Railway
Printed by: IMP Champenois, Paris
Type of print: Lithography
Dimensions: 41.1 x 29.5 inches
Linen backed
Condition A
Original vintage travel poster made by Edouard Herzig in 1925, Roman Algeria - Timgad - Algerian State Railways
Printed by: Baconnier Frère, Algiers
Printing type: Lithography
Dimensions: 40.9 x 29.1 inches
Linen backed
Condition A
Original vintage travel poster realised by Henry de Remaucourt in 1927, Cancale - Environ de Saint Malo et du Mont Saint Michel
Printed by : Imp Gaillac - Monrocq
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 40.9 x 29.5 inches
Linen backed
Condition A+
Original vintage travel poster realised by M. Perronnet in 1928, Les Sables d'Olonne - Plages et Ports de l'océan
Printed by : A. Morgeu - Imp Edit
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 41.3 x 29.9 inches
Linen backed
Condition A+
Original vintage travel poster realised by Pierre Commarmond in 1930, Mers-Les-Bains
Printed by : Lucien Serre & Cie, Paris
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 41.5 x 29.7 inches
Linen backed
Condition A+
Original vintage travel poster realised by Maurice Toussaint in 1928, Excursions en Bretagne Dinan
Printed by : Imp. Daude Frères, Paris
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 41.3 x 29.9 inches
Linen backed
Condition A+
Original vintage travel poster realised by Georges Meunier in 1914, Pont-Aven - Finistère - La Rivière à Marée Haute
Printed by : Chaix, Paris
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 41.3 x 29.7 inches
Linen backed
Condition A+
Original vintage travel poster realised by Albert Galland in 1929, Pornic Plages de l'océan
Printed by : Imp. Daude Frères, Paris
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 41.5 x 29.9 inches
Linen backed
Condition A+
Original vintage travel poster realised by Constant Duval in 1920, Bretagne Pittoresque - Roscoff - Le Port
Printed by : Imp. Champenois
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 41.3 x 29.7 inches
Linen backed
Condition A+
Original vintage travel poster realised by Charles Hallo Circa 1920, Gérardmer
Printed by : Cornille et Serre
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 40.9 x 29.1 inches
Linen backed
Condition B+
Original vintage travel poster realised by R. De La Corbière in 1923, Excursions en Normandie - Presqu'île du Cotentin
Printed by : Imp. Gaillac Monrocq et Cie, Paris
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 41.3 x 29.7 inches
Condition A
Original vintage travel poster realised by Charles Hallé in 1921, Le Cap Ferret - Entrée du bassin d'Arcachon
Printed by : Hachard &Cie, Paris
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 41.5 x 29.3 inches
Linen backed
Condition A
Original vintage travel poster realised by Bernard Villemot in 1973, Une nuit en voiture-lit SNCF
Printed by : Chabrillac à Toulouse
Type of print : Offset
Size : 39.2 x 24.8 inches
Linen backed
Condition A
Original vintage travel poster realised by Saindré in 1952, Visitez la France - Alpes - SNCF
Printed by : Création Paul Martial
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 39 x 24.4 inches
Linen backed
Condition A
Original vintage travel poster realised by Starr in 1952, Visitez la France - Côte d'Azur - SNCF
Printed by : Pub Yves Alexandre
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 39.4 x 24.6 inches
Linen backed
Condition A
Original vintage travel poster realised by Nathan in 1963, Visitez la Côte d'Azur
Printed by : Perceval
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 39 x 24.8 inches
Linen backed
Condition A
Original vintage travel poster realised by Nathan in 1957, Paris SNCF - Trains et Autocars
Printed by : Perceval
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 39 x 24.4 inches
Linen backed
Condition A+
Original vintage travel poster realised by André Strauss in 1950, Bretagne - Côte
Printed by : R.L. Dupuy Paris
Type of print : Offset
Size : 39 x 24 inches
Linen backed
Condition A
Original vintage travel poster realised by Abel in 1946, Bretagne - Menhir
Printed by : R.L. Dupuy Paris
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 39 x 24 inches
Linen backed
Condition A
Original vintage travel poster realised by Constant Duval in 1920, Normandie et Bretagne - Le château Gaillard
Printed by : F. Champenois Paris
Type of print : Lithograph
Size : 41.3 x 29.5 inches
Linen backed
Condition A
