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

Purgatif Géraudel (Géraudel purgatives)

1890
Tiled panel, iron frame, colour glazed, 122 x 82 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Probably the most popular decorative painter and poster artist in France, Chéret represented the urbane, Parisian style within French poster art, creating as it were the "pin-up girl" of the Belle Époque. In an almost Rococo manner and with Impressionist colouring, he depicted figures of graceful young women of delightful radiance, which thrilled Paris.