Prochainement la très illustre Compagnie du Chat Noir (Poster for the Company of the Black Cat), 1896

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Medium

color lithograph on wove paper, mounted on muslin

Dimensions

sheet: 62.1 × 39.2 cm (24 7/16 × 15 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased for the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Crauzat 1913, no. 496

Accession Number

2014.100.1

Artists / Makers

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (artist) Swiss, 1859 - 1923

Charles Verneau (printer) French, 1850 - 1950

Image Use

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Inscription

across entire poster: PROCHAINEMENT / la très illutre Compagnie / du / CHAT / NOIR / avec / ses PIECES D'OMBRES / CÉLEBRES, ses POETES / ses COMPOSITEURS / AVEC / RODOLPHE SALIS; along right edge: Imp. CHARLES VERNEAU, 114, Rue Oberkampf, PARIS

Provenance

(sale, Piasa Paris, 20 June 2014, no. 1414); (Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2014 by NGA.

Associated Names

Piasa
Prouté, S.A., Paul

Bibliography

1913: Crauzat, E. de. L'oeuvre grave et lithographie de Steinlen. Paris: Societe de propagation des livres d'art, 1913, no. 496