Yvette Guilbert aux Ambassadeurs
1894 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Théophile Steinlen (1859–1923)
- Year
- 1894
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 180 × 80 cm
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (department of Prints and Photography)
- Movement
- Belle Époque
Yvette Guilbert stands full length in a white dress and her long black gloves, her red hair piled up, the audience of the Ambassadeurs café-concert spread out behind her in a dark mass under the lettering "Ambassadeurs, Yvette Guilbert, tous les soirs". Steinlen designed the tall poster in 1894 for her season at the Ambassadeurs on the Champs-Élysées; she thought it the best likeness anyone had made of her, after the cruel drawings of Toulouse-Lautrec. The white figure against the dark crowd is printed by Charles Verneau, 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
A tall white figure with black gloves against a dark crowd, for a music room, hallway or stairwell at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black, no mat. It suits a white or charcoal wall and pairs with Chéret's Yvette Guilbert au Concert Parisien.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Belle Époque painting
- Era
- 19th century (1894)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- 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
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
