Yvette Guilbert aux Ambassadeurs
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
- 180 × 80 cm
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (department of Prints and Photography)
- Movement
- Belle Époque
Yvette Guilbert stands full length in a white dress and her long black gloves, her red hair piled up, the audience of the Ambassadeurs café-concert spread out behind her in a dark mass under the lettering "Ambassadeurs, Yvette Guilbert, tous les soirs". Steinlen designed the tall poster in 1894 for her season at the Ambassadeurs on the Champs-Élysées; she thought it the best likeness anyone had made of her, after the cruel drawings of Toulouse-Lautrec. The white figure against the dark crowd is 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 tall white figure with black gloves against a dark crowd, for a music room, hallway or stairwell at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black, no mat. It suits a white or charcoal wall and pairs with Chéret's Yvette Guilbert au Concert Parisien.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Belle Époque painting
- Era
- 19th century (1894)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- 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.
