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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
Le Grand Siècle de l’Affiche · The Masters
Fêtes de Mont-de-Marsan, 1885
Jules Chéret · Fêtes de Mont-de-Marsan, 1885, 1885
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A Chéret lithograph for the fêtes of Mont-de-Marsan, 18 to 21 July 1885, with three great Spanish-Portuguese and Landes bullfights.
Why it matters
Printed at Chaix in Paris for a town in the Landes, one of the regional commissions Chéret took in the 1880s.
What to notice
The lettering promises 3 grandes courses de taureaux hispano-portugaises et landaises.
The festival calendar of a southern town, set in Paris colour.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Jules Chéret
- Printer / house
- Imprimerie Chaix, Paris
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Fêtes de Mont-de-Marsan, 1885, 1885
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, via Gallica and Wikimedia Commons · btv1b53221564w
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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