Le Journal: La Traite des Blanches
1899 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Théophile Steinlen (1859–1923)
- Year
- 1899
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 140 × 100 cm
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (department of Prints and Photography)
- Movement
- Belle Époque
A man in a white suit, cigar in hand, stands over three young women with long dark hair who sit in a row in low-cut dresses, one with a green feather in her hair, under the lettering "Le Journal, chaque jour 6 pages au moins, publie La Traite des Blanches, grand roman inédit par Dubut de Laforest". Steinlen designed the poster in 1899 to announce the newspaper's serialisation of a novel about the trade in women, and drew the procurer and his victims without caricature. The white suit, the dark hair and the red chair are printed by Charles Verneau, 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 man in white over three seated women in dark and red, for a study, library or print room at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black, no mat. It suits a white or dark green wall and sits with Le Coupable, the other Le Journal poster.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Belle Époque painting
- Era
- 19th century (1899)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- study or library, 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.
The full-bleed edition
The painting printed edge to edge, filling the whole sheet (very slightly cropped to fit) — and available on gallery-wrapped canvas.
