Lait pur stérilisé de la Vingeanne
1894 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Théophile Steinlen (1859–1923)
- Year
- 1894
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 139.7 × 99.7 cm
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (department of Prints and Photography)
- Movement
- Belle Époque
A little girl in a red dress sits on a chair drinking from a bowl of milk while three cats watch her, hoping for a share, under the lettering "Lait pur de la Vingeanne stérilisé". Steinlen designed the poster in 1894 for the sterilised milk of the Quillot brothers' dairy at Montigny-sur-Vingeanne in Burgundy; the girl is his daughter Colette and the cats are his own. It is the gentlest of his posters and one of the most popular, the red dress and the three cats making a single warm shape against the pale ground. 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 child in red with three cats, warm and domestic, for a kitchen, breakfast corner or child's room at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black, no mat. It suits a white or cream wall and pairs with Tournée du Chat Noir.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Belle Époque painting
- Era
- 19th century (1894)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- kitchen, kids room, 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.
