Motocycles Comiot
1899 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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About this work
- Artist
- Théophile Steinlen (1859–1923)
- Year
- 1899
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 190 × 140 cm
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (department of Prints and Photography)
- Movement
- Belle Époque
A woman in a red blouse rides a motor tricycle along a country road, scattering a flock of geese, a village with a church spire in the distance, under the lettering Motocycles Comiot and the Paris address. Steinlen designed the poster in 1899 for the Comiot motor tricycles, and his sympathy for the geese, drawn with the same care as the rider, makes it as much a country scene as an advertisement. The red blouse, the pale road and the grey-green landscape 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 rider in red scattering geese on a pale country road, for a hallway, garage or kitchen at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black, no mat. It suits a white or sage wall and pairs with Toulouse-Lautrec's La Chaîne Simpson.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Belle Époque painting
- Era
- 19th century (1899)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- kitchen, 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.
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.
