Of the world’s finest artists from. Our collection to yours. Thank you for visiting.. Color Stone lithograph on Velin Paper. Signed in the plate, lower right. Sheet Size: 8 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches. Mat Opening: 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Approximately 14 5/8 x 17 1/4 inches. Gallery matted and framed in a new solid wood moulding. Jules Chéret was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of Belle Époque poster art. He has been called the father of the modern poster. Born in Paris to a poor but creative family of artisans, Chéret had a very limited education. At age thirteen, he began a three-year apprenticeship with a lithographer and then his interest in painting led him to take an art course at the École Nationale de Dessin. Like most other fledgling artists, Chéret studied the techniques of various artists, past and present, by visiting Paris museums. From 1859 to 1866, he was trained in lithography in London, England, where he was strongly influenced by the British approach to poster design and printing. On returning to France, Chéret created vivid poster ads for the cabarets, music halls, and theaters such as the Eldorado, the Olympia, the Folies Bergère, Théâtre de l’Opéra, the Alcazar d’Été and the Moulin Rouge. He created posters and illustrations for the satirical weekly Le Courrier français. His works were influenced by the scenes of frivolity depicted in the works of Rococo artists such as Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Antoine Watteau. So much in demand was he, that he expanded his business to providing advertisements for the plays of touring troupes, municipal festivals, and then for beverages and liquors, perfumes, soaps, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products. Eventually he became a major advertising force, adding the railroad companies and a number of manufacturing businesses to his client list. As his work became more popular and his large posters displaying modestly free-spirited females found a larger audience, pundits began calling him the father of the women’s liberation. Females had previously been depicted in art as prostitutes or puritans. The women of Chéret’s posters, joyous, elegant and lively-‘Cherettes’, as they were popularly called-were neither. It was freeing for the women of Paris, and heralded a noticeably more open atmosphere in Paris where women were able to engage in formerly taboo activities, such as wearing low-cut bodices and smoking in public. These’Cherettes’ were widely seen and recognized. His success inspired an industry that saw the emergence of a new generation of poster designers and painters such as Charles Gesmar and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. One of his students was Georges de Feure. In his old age Chéret retired to the pleasant climate of the French Riviera at Nice. He died in 1932 at the age of ninety-six and was interred in the Cimetière Saint-Vincent in the Montmartre quarter of Paris. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and is Fully Guaranteed to be Certified as Described. Any framing included in a listing is double matted and framed in a solid wood moulding. We can also frame any pieces not listed as such. We are usually half the price of a regular framer. We guarantee all our listings to be 100% as described. This item is in the category “Art\Art Prints”. The seller is “themadhattercollection” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Features: Framed, Matted, Signed
- Size Type/Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30in.)
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Subject: Theater
- Material: Lithograph
- Print Type: Lithograph
- Date of Creation: 1800-1899
- Framing: Framed
- Artist: Jules Chéret
- Year of Production: 1896
- Style: Art Nouveau
- Signed: Signed
- Type: Print