CHÉRET, Jules
(b. 1836, Paris, d. 1932, Nice)

Les Girard

1879
Lithograph, 574 x 431 mm
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Among his most important early works are the poster produced in 1874 for the dance hall Frascati (his first large-scale work) and Les Girard (1877), whose integration of text with image makes it one of the most stylistically advanced posters of the 19th century.