Mademoiselle Fifi

1896

Tancrède Synave

Associated Names
Tancrède Synave

Artist, French, born 1860

Eugène Verneau

Printer, French, active late 19th century

The image features a vintage illustration with two upper-body depictions of individuals at a table. The person on the left has short, slicked-back light hair, wears glasses, and holds a cigarette. They are dressed in a dark jacket. The person on the right has short, curly dark hair and high cheekbones. She wears a bright yellow garment and holds a drink in her raised right arm. The table in front of them has a glass, a knife, and what looks like half a loaf of bread. The background is plain with text including "Le Théatre Libre" and "Mlle Fifi." Additional text mentions Guy de Maupassant and another individual related to the illustration.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    5-color lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Liane W. Atlas

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 31.8 x 24.5 cm (12 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1999.34.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Liane W. Atlas, Washington, D. C.; gift to NGA in 1999.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1992

  • Aitken, Geneviève. Artistes et Théâtres d'Avant-Garde: Programmes de Théâtre Illustrés, Paris 1890-1900. Exh. cat. Pont-Aven, Musée de Pont-Aven and tour, 1992, 37, no. 32.

Inscriptions

Signed in stone, lower left: t. Synave; in stone, upper left: Le Théâtre Libre; in stone, upper right: Mlle. Fifi; in stone, lower right: Drame en un Acte...par M. Oscar Méténier; in stone, lower left, Paris, Imp. Eugène Verneau.

Wikidata ID

Q75422980

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