Liane de Pougy aux Folies-Bergère
1898 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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This print

About this work
- Artist
- Paul Berthon (1872–1934)
- Year
- 1898
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 175 × 68 cm
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (department of Prints and Photography)
- Movement
- Art Nouveau
The dancer and courtesan Liane de Pougy stands in a pale gown with a spray of irises at her feet, her arms raised, against a dark ground patterned like a spider's web, under the lettering Folies-Bergère above and her name below. Berthon designed the tall poster in 1898 for her appearance at the music hall, in the narrow format Mucha had made fashionable with his Bernhardt panels; the irises and the web are drawn in his soft outline. Printed by Chaix, Paris. The impression reproduced is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A tall pale figure with irises on a dark patterned ground, for a hallway, stairwell or dressing room at 12×18 or 16×24 in thin black or dark wood, no mat. It suits a white or deep green wall and pairs with Mucha's La Dame aux Camélias.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Art Nouveau painting
- Era
- 19th century (1898)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, living room, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 12×18. 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. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
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
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
























