Antique & Vintage Postcards

A jewel-toned Orientalist fantasy leaps from this reproduction of a circa-1910 poster by the artist Dellepianne — a North African woman in orange drapery, gold jewelry, and a saffron headscarf poses beneath palm fronds as two Compagnie Générale Transatlantique ocean liners steam across a burnished sea behind her, one plowing the open ocean at full speed, the other entering a Mediterranean port city framed in an oval vignette. The text boldly proclaims "Voyages en Algérie et Tunisie par la Cie Gle Transatlantique," advertising the CGT's passenger routes from France to North Africa at the height of the colonial era — the same shipping company that would later operate the legendary SS Normandie. Published by Éditions Clouet in 1998 as a high-quality poster-art reproduction card, this piece appeals simultaneously to Art Nouveau travel-poster collectors, maritime history enthusiasts, and scholars of French colonial visual culture.