Vincent Lorant-Heilbronn – Les Maîtres de l’Affiche : Messaline, 1898

By LORANT-HEILBRONN Vincent (1874-1912)

Vincent LORANT-HEILBRONN (1874–1912)
Messaline – Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, music by Isidore de Lara, 1898 — from Les Maîtres de l’Affiche, PL. 187
Lithograph in colours on wove paper, printed by Imprimerie Chaix, Paris
Signed and dated ’98 in the stone right; lithographer’s credit “V. Guillet” in the image; “PL. 187” and Imprimerie Chaix credit printed in the lower left margin; Les Maîtres de l’Affiche blindstamp in the lower right margin
Dimensions:
Sheet: 39 × 29 cm (15.4 × 11.4 in.)
Image: 36.5 × 15.5 cm (14.4 × 6.1 in.)
Condition:
Good condition; scattered light foxing in the margins. Unframed.
References: Stanley Appelbaum, The Complete “Masters of the Poster”, Dover, 1990, pl. 187
Period: plate published 1899
Plate 187 of Les Maîtres de l’Affiche (1895–1900), the monthly series of reduced-format posters published under Jules Chéret’s direction by Imprimerie Chaix. Poster for Isidore de Lara’s opera Messaline, premiered at Monte Carlo in 1899, in a Mucha-like Art Nouveau frame.
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