Get a Cappiello Certificate of Authenticity for your painting or a COA for your Boucher drawing or print.

For all your Cappiello artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

How to get a Cappiello Certificate of Authenticity is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Cappiello painting, drawing or print.

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We have been authenticating Cappiello and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Cappiello experts and Cappiello certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Cappiello artworks.

Our Cappiello paintings, drawings and print authentications are accepted and respected worlwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Cappiello certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Cappiello painting, drawing or print anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Cappiello paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Cappiello collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Leonetto Cappiello art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Leonetto Cappiello or we will sell it for you.

Leonetto Cappiello was an Italian poster art designer who lived in Paris. He is now often called “the father of modern advertising.” Cappiello had no formal training in art. The first exhibition of his work was in 1892, when a painting was displayed at the municipal museum in Florence.

Cappiello started his career as a caricaturist illustrating in journals like Le Rire, Le Cri de Paris, Le Sourire, L’Assiette au Beurre, La Baionnette, Femina, and others. His first album of caricatures, “Lanterna Magica,” was made in 1896. In 1898, he moved to Paris, and his caricatures were published in Le Rire for the first time.

Cappiello made his name during the poster boom period in the early 20th century, with designs similar to those of Jules Chéret. His first poster, for the newspaper Frou-Frou, was made in 1899.He signed first contract for posters with printer P. Vercasson in 1900. He was married to Suzanne Meyer Cappiello 1901. Between 1901 and 1914, he created several hundred posters in a style that revolutionized the art of poster design. Cappiello redesigned the fin-de-siècle pictures into images more relevant to the faster pace of the 20th century. During this period, Capiello continued as a caricaturist.

During World War I, Cappiello worked as an interpreter in Italy. Afterwards, he devoted his career fully to poster design. In 1919, he signed a contract with publisher Devambez.

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