Parapluie-Revel
1922 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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About this work
- Artist
- Leonetto Cappiello (1875–1942)
- Year
- 1922
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 219 × 139 cm
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (department of Prints and Photography)
- Movement
- Belle Époque
Three figures in the rain, a woman in a red skirt between two men, huddle under three black umbrellas against a yellow ground, their feet splashing, under the lettering Parapluie-Revel. Cappiello designed the poster in 1922 for the Lyon umbrella maker Revel, founded in 1851, and it is one of the best known of his later posters: the product is the black shape, the yellow is the dry world it keeps out. Printed by Devambez, 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
Three black umbrellas on a yellow ground, bold and simple, for a hallway, mudroom or kitchen at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black, no mat. It brightens a white or grey wall and pairs with Le Frou-Frou.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Belle Époque painting
- Era
- 20th century (1922)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- kitchen, hallway or entryway, living room, dining room, dorm 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. 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
Shipping & returns
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.



























