Art Nouveau Coloring Book | 44 Vintage Coloring Pages for Adults | Real 1890s Poster Art, Grayscale Printable PDF | GrayscaleHaven

An art nouveau coloring book built from the real thing: 44 vintage coloring pages restored from genuine 1890s posters and drawings, ready for adult coloring.

This is an art nouveau coloring book built from genuine public-domain artwork of the 1890s and 1900s: 44 vintage coloring pages scanned and restored from the original posters, lithographs, and drawings, then prepared as clean grayscale pages for coloring. No imitations and no modern copies: these are the real poster walls of Paris, printed large and ready for your pencils and markers.

Meet the masters inside: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the Moulin Rouge, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen and the famous Chat Noir cat, Aubrey Beardsley's ink illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Chéret's dancing poster girls, Eugène Grasset's Valkyrie, Edward Penfield's Harper's covers, Pierre Bonnard, Maxfield Parrish, Ethel Reed, and Theo van Hoytema's peacock. Every page carries a caption naming the artwork, the artist, and the date, so the book reads like a small museum you get to color.

ABOUT THIS COLLECTION

This book is a compilation of original Art Nouveau artwork: 44 works made by human artists during the Art Nouveau years, gathered from the open collections of four museums and libraries. The dated works in the set run from 1887 to 1905. Twenty-two plates come from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, eleven from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, seven from the Smithsonian, and four through the Digital Public Library of America, which brings together holdings from libraries and archives across the United States. Sixteen named artists are represented, among them Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Aubrey Beardsley, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Edward Penfield, and Eugène Grasset.

No image in this book was generated by AI. Every page began as a real artwork, drawn, painted, or printed by a named artist of the period, well over a century ago.

In their own time, these works lived out in the world. Most are lithographs, printed in color and pasted up where everyone could see them: posters for the Moulin Rouge and the Chat Noir cabaret, and advertisements for milk, beer, and a casino. Others ran as covers and poster art for Harper's magazine, or as illustrations inside books, including Beardsley's drawings for the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Twelve plates are drawings in pen and ink, graphite, and chalk. The set also holds watercolors, one of them painted on silk for a fan, a monotype by Camille Pissarro, a block-printed wallpaper pattern, and Grasset's design for a belt buckle, drawn for the jewelry house Maison Vever.

To build this book, each scanned original was cleaned, cropped to the artwork itself, and converted to grayscale. Every page carries a caption with the artwork's title, its artist, and its date, taken from the museum records.

The grayscale is the invitation. These artists worked in bold color the first time around. Now their shading is in place and the color is up to you, so colorists of any age can color and recolor real human art from the past in palettes of their own.

Cover artwork is credited on the cover. Every page caption names its artwork, artist, and date.

WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK SPECIAL

- 44 genuine art nouveau plates from the 1890s and 1900s, restored from public-domain originals

- The real artists: Lautrec, Steinlen, Beardsley, Chéret, Grasset, Penfield, Bonnard, Parrish, and more

- Every page captioned with the artwork's title, artist, and date

- Grayscale pages with the original shading in place, a head start before you add color

- Printable at home or at any print shop, color them again and again

A NOTE ON THE ARTWORK

These plates are public-domain works, most over 120 years old. A few keep the warm, toned character of the original prints, and poster lettering that was part of the original artwork stays in the art, exactly as the artists published it.

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

- Three PDF files with 44 printable coloring pages, plus a title page and a two-page About This Collection introduction (47 pages total), 8.5 x 11 inches, 300 DPI

- Instant download: your files are ready as soon as checkout completes

PRINTING TIPS

Print on US Letter paper. For markers or gel pens, use cardstock (65 lb or heavier) so colors stay bright and pages do not bleed through. Colored pencils and a colorless blender pencil work beautifully on regular paper.

PROVENANCE NOTE

Every artwork in this book is in the public domain. The pages were scanned from the original published works and restored by GrayscaleHaven: cropped to the art, leveled for clean printing, and captioned from museum records.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

This is a digital product. No physical book will be shipped. Due to the nature of digital downloads, all sales are final.

PERSONAL USE ONLY

You may print these pages as many times as you like for your own personal enjoyment. Please do not share, resell, or redistribute the files.