Bagnères-de-Luchon: Fête des Fleurs
1890 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
📦 Free shipping on every order, arriving in 4–9 business days with production included. Express ($14.90) at checkout arrives in 4–6 business days.
About this work
- Artist
- Jules Chéret (1836–1932)
- Year
- 1890
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 124 × 88 cm
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (department of Prints and Photography)
- Movement
- Belle Époque
A young woman in a red dress and a yellow hat carries armfuls of flowers, under the lettering "Bagnères de Luchon, Fête des Fleurs, dimanche 10 août". Jules Chéret designed the poster in 1890 for the flower festival of the Pyrenean spa town, one of the few he made for a place rather than a Paris entertainment or a product; the battle of flowers was the high point of Luchon's summer season. The red, the yellow and the pale ground are printed in his overlapping spatter by Chaix, Paris. The impression reproduced is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Red, yellow and flowers, for a hallway, bedroom or garden room at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black, no mat. It suits a white or cream wall and pairs with Toulouse-Lautrec's La Passagère du 54 for a summer pair.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Belle Époque painting
- Era
- 19th century (1890)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- bedroom, hallway or entryway, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — dark wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
Shipping & returns
Is this the whole painting, or a crop?
Is Bagnères-de-Luchon: Fête des Fleurs in the public domain?
What is it printed on?
When was Bagnères-de-Luchon: Fête des Fleurs painted, and in what medium?
What size works above a sofa or bed?
About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
