Art Nouveau Floral Stencil Designs – in Full Color –

“The present collection, which contains all thirty-two color plates from M(aurice) P(illard) Verneuil’s stencil portfolio L’ornementation par le Pochoir (published by Schmid and Laurens, Paris in the 1890’s), demonstrates the two most significant tendencies of Art Nouveau in France: on the one hand, a return to simple organic forms, to the free-flowing, curvilinear decoration that was to become the trademark (and at times the stereotype) of Art Nouveau; and on the other, an imaginative development of geometric and abstract motifs. …”

“… many different flowers, plants and trees as subjects and sources of inspiration, among them wild hyacinth, periwinkle, poppy, chestnut, lily of the valley, snowdrop, cyclamen, holly, oak, anemone, lily, jonquil and columbine. …