Exposition des Maîtres Japonais
1890 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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This print

About this work
- Artist
- Jules Chéret (1836–1932)
- Year
- 1890
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Collection
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Movement
- Belle Époque
A Japanese courtesan, drawn from a woodblock print, unrolls a long letter down the left of the sheet beside lettering for an exhibition of Japanese illustrated books, colour prints and hanging scrolls at the École des Beaux-Arts. Jules Chéret made the poster for the exhibition of April and May 1890, organised by the dealer Siegfried Bing in aid of the Alliance Française, which showed hundreds of prints and fed the Japonisme of the 1890s. The impression reproduced is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Cream, sage and rust in a wide format, for a study, hallway or above a desk at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black or dark wood, no mat. It suits a white or pale green wall and pairs with any of the Hokusai or Hiroshige woodblocks.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Belle Époque painting
- Era
- 19th century (1890)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, home office, 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. 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
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.


































