Cabourg, à 5 heures de Paris
1896 · Colour lithograph (Les Maîtres de l'Affiche plate after the poster) · Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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About this work
- Artist
- Privat-Livemont (1861–1936)
- Year
- 1896
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (Les Maîtres de l'Affiche plate after the poster)
- Original size
- 29 × 39 cm
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (Les Maîtres de l'Affiche, reduced plate)
- Movement
- Art Nouveau
A red-haired bather rises from the surf, her hair and the foam drawn as the same curling lines, under the lettering "Cabourg à 5 heures de Paris" and the names of the resort's casino and hotels. Privat-Livemont designed the poster in 1896 for the Normandy resort where Proust would later summer, and it is his best-known travel poster; the wave and the hair are among the purest Art Nouveau lines in any poster. This is the reduced version issued in 1897 as plate 88 of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche, printed by Chaix; the original poster measured about 60 by 90 cm. The impression reproduced is from the Bibliothèque nationale de France's copy of the series.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A bather in a curling wave in sea green and copper, horizontal, for a bathroom, beach house or bedroom at 24×18 or 32×24 in thin black or dark wood, no mat. It suits a white or pale blue wall and pairs with Toulouse-Lautrec's La Passagère du 54.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Art Nouveau painting
- Era
- 19th century (1896)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- bedroom, bathroom, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×18. Prints at 16×12, 24×18, 32×24 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard; 32×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
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.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
