Jardin de Paris: Spectacle Varié
1899 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Jules Chéret (1836–1932)
- Year
- 1899
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 127 × 88 cm
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (department of Prints and Photography)
- Movement
- Belle Époque
A dancer in a white dress kicks up her skirts above a crowd of top hats, under strings of lanterns and the lettering "Champs-Élysées, Jardin de Paris, spectacle varié, concert promenade". Jules Chéret designed the poster for the Jardin de Paris, the open-air café-concert in the gardens of the Champs-Élysées run by Joseph Oller of the Moulin Rouge, where Jane Avril and La Goulue danced in summer; he made several versions of it in the 1890s. The red lettering, the white dress and the flying skirts 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
A white dancer over a crowd in red and blue, for a hallway, bar area or bedroom at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black, no mat. It suits a white or blush wall and pairs with Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril (Jardin de Paris).
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Belle Époque painting
- Era
- 19th century (1899)
- 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
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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.
