Musée Grévin: Pantomimes Lumineuses
1892 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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About this work
- Artist
- Jules Chéret (1836–1932)
- Year
- 1892
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 124.6 × 88 cm
- Collection
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Movement
- Belle Époque
A dancer in a yellow dress twirls under the lettering "Pantomimes lumineuses, Théâtre optique de E. Reynaud, musique de Gaston Paulin", with a clown and a crowd of spectators below. Jules Chéret designed the poster in 1892 for Émile Reynaud's Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin waxworks, where Reynaud projected his hand-painted animated films, the first animated pictures ever shown to a paying public, three years before the Lumière cinématographe. The yellow dress, the blue ground and the red lettering are printed in his overlapping spatter by Chaix, Paris. The impression reproduced belongs to the Rijksmuseum in 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
A yellow dancer in projected light, for a media room, study or hallway at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black, no mat. It suits a white or navy wall and pairs with Théâtrophone, the other new-technology poster.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Belle Époque painting
- Era
- 19th century (1892)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, 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
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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.
