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Artist / Designer: Jules Chéret (French, 1836–1932)
about 1896
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph
Dimensions
36.5 x 55 cm (14 3/8 x 21 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Accession Number97.1241
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
DescriptionBook jacket design for Les Affiches illustrées 1886-1896, by Ernest Maindron (Paris, 1896). Proof before the letters. Printer unknown, probably Imprimerie Chaix, Paris
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Provenance1897, sold by T. H. Castor & Co., Boston, to the MFA for $0.96. (Accession Date: December 28, 2018)