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Le Grand Siècle de l’Affiche · Les Maîtres de l’Affiche
Les Maîtres de l’Affiche — Librairie Romantique (Grasset)
Eugène Grasset · Les Maîtres de l’Affiche, plate series (vol. 1, plate 42), 1896
What it is
A Eugène Grasset bookshop advertisement, republished as a Maîtres de l’Affiche plate.
Why it matters
Grasset brought a medieval-manuscript sensibility to the commercial poster — stained-glass color, heavy outline — a different Belle Époque hand than Chéret’s.
What to notice
Flat decorative pattern treated as seriously as the central figure.
An illuminated manuscript, selling books instead of scripture.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Eugène Grasset
- Printer / house
- Imprimerie Chaix
- Format
- One-sheet
- Poster published
- Les Maîtres de l’Affiche, plate series (vol. 1, plate 42), 1896
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
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 2026-07-17. This file is tagged "Licence Ouverte 1.0" on Commons rather than an explicit PD-old template — Grasset died in 1917 (life+70 elapsed 1987) and the plate predates 1931, so the substance clears under house policy; the tag string itself just isn’t the literal PD-old wording. Registrar-awareness note only; does not block CLEAR.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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