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Poster

1899 (produced)
Artist/Maker
Imprimerie Chaix, Ateliers Chéret (printers)
Neumont, Maurice (artist)
Place of origin
Paris (produced)

Poster advertising the Guiet & Cie car manufacturers. A black chauffeur driven car is shown with a female passenger in a white dress, grey hat and red scarf stands in the spare seat. The words '124eme Avenue de Villiers' run across the bottom of the poster in red.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Brief description
Colour lithograph advertising the Guiet & Cie car manufacturers, designed by Maurice Neumont, printed by Encres Lorilleux, Paris 1899.
Physical description
Poster advertising the Guiet & Cie car manufacturers. A black chauffeur driven car is shown with a female passenger in a white dress, grey hat and red scarf stands in the spare seat. The words '124eme Avenue de Villiers' run across the bottom of the poster in red.
Marks and inscriptions
(Signed and dated.)
Gallery label
(1987-2006)
'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900'

This poster advertises Guiet & Cie, electric car manufacturers. The designer, Maurice Louis Henri Meumont, was a painter, lithographer, poster designer and caricaturist. He was a pupil of the French academician Gérôme, and from 1902 exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français. During the First World War he produced numerous propaganda posters, as well as working on camouflage projects. This poster was printed by the Imprimerie Chaix, founded by the designer Jules Chéret.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.160-1980

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Record createdApril 12, 2000
Record URL
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