Théâtrophone
1890 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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About this work
- Artist
- Jules Chéret (1836–1932)
- Year
- 1890
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 124 × 88 cm
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (department of Prints and Photography)
- Movement
- Belle Époque
A woman in a yellow dress and a plumed hat listens through a pair of earpieces, a top-hatted man beside her, to the Théâtrophone, the service that relayed live opera and theatre over telephone lines to subscribers and to coin-operated stations in hotels and cafés. Jules Chéret designed the poster in 1890, the year the Compagnie du Théâtrophone opened in Paris; Proust was later a subscriber. The red lettering, the yellow dress and the blue night behind them are printed in Chéret's soft spatter 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
Yellow, red and blue around a listening figure, for a music 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 Yvette Guilbert au Concert Parisien.
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, 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.
