La Rue (Affiches Charles Verneau)
1896 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Théophile Steinlen (1859–1923)
- Year
- 1896
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 236 × 304 cm
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (department of Prints and Photography)
- Movement
- Belle Époque
A Paris street crowded with people of every class: a laundress with her basket, a workman, a girl in a red dress, a nurse with a pram, a woman in a feathered hat, children and a dog, all moving across the sheet under the lettering Affiches Charles Verneau, La Rue. Steinlen designed the enormous poster in 1896 for his own printer, Charles Verneau, as a demonstration of what the firm could print; at more than three metres wide it was made in six sheets. The models are his wife, his daughter Colette and his neighbours in Montmartre, and it is the fullest picture he made of the streets he drew all his life. 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 wide street crowd in ochre, red and grey, for a hallway, living room or above a sofa at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black or dark wood, no mat. It suits a white or warm grey wall and pairs with Toulouse-Lautrec's L'Aube.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Belle Époque painting
- Era
- 19th century (1896)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- living room, hallway or entryway, 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.
