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Yvette Guilbert

Poster
1894 (made)
Artist/Maker
Verneau (printers)
Steinlen, Théophile-Alexandre (artist)
Place of origin
Paris (made)

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen was born in Lausanne in 1859 and, after arriving in Paris in 1881, soon became a member of the artistic community in Montmartre of which Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Adolphe Willette were also members. Steinlen and Toulouse-Lautrec depicted several of the same subjects in their work but it was the Swiss artist who enjoyed greater fame during the artists' lifetimes, no doubt due to his ability to undertake more commercial work, which reached a greater audience than Toulouse-Lautrec's controversial graphic work.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleYvette Guilbert (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Colour Lithograph
Lithographic Ink
Paper
Lithograph
Printing
Brief description
'Yvette Guilbert', poster by Steinlen. France, 1894.
Physical description
Poster before lettering depicting Yvette Guilbert on stage at the Ambassadeurs Theatre.
Dimensions
  • 2016th height: 1402mm
  • Width: 1003mm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Steinlen 94 (Signed and dated)
  • Th. S (Monogrammed)
  • Imp. Charles Verneau, 14 Rue Oberkampf, Paris (Déposé) (Lettered)
Summary
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen was born in Lausanne in 1859 and, after arriving in Paris in 1881, soon became a member of the artistic community in Montmartre of which Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Adolphe Willette were also members. Steinlen and Toulouse-Lautrec depicted several of the same subjects in their work but it was the Swiss artist who enjoyed greater fame during the artists' lifetimes, no doubt due to his ability to undertake more commercial work, which reached a greater audience than Toulouse-Lautrec's controversial graphic work.
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Coutts, Howard and Claire Jones Toulouse Lautrec and the art of the French Poster. Bowes Museum, 2004. 53 p., ill. ISBN 0954818202.
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1962
  • p. 128 Phillip Dennis Cate, Saskia Oooms, Michela Niccolai, Laurent Bihl, Ricard Bru i Turull, Toulouse-Lautrec i l'esperit de Montmartre. Barcelona : Obra Social la Caixa, 2018. 274 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm. ISBN: 9788499002118
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.558-1962

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Record createdJuly 18, 2007
Record URL
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