Ice Palace, Champs-Elysées
Artist
Jules Chéret
(French, 1836–1933)
Date1896
Mediumcolor lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions57.8 x 39.1 cm (image)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineEliza S. Paine Fund
Object number1976.24
Label TextChéret introduced a new way to make commercial prints from three stones; one black, one red, and a fond gradué (mixing a warm and cool color on one stone). Nearly all of Chéret’s advertisements feature chic, fin-de-siècle women. In fact, these stylish Parisian women were so popular they earned the nickname chérettes. Flirtatious belles, they brazenly engaged in taboo activities like smoking and wearing low-cut attire. Historically cited as an important figure within the burgeoning French feminist movement, contemporary supporters of Chéret dubbed him “the father of French liberation.”On View
Not on view
Louis Jules Arnout
about 1860
Eugène Cicéri
about 1869
