La Depeche Grand Format
Date1898
Artist
Maurice Denis
(French painter and author, 1870–1943)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for La Depeche (de Toulouse)
Les Maitres de L'affiche, 1898, plate 140
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 13 1/16 × 9 1/16 in. (33.2 × 23 cm)
sheet: 15 9/16 × 11 1/8 in. (39.5 × 28.3 cm)
sheet: 15 9/16 × 11 1/8 in. (39.5 × 28.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-202
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextFrench painter Maurice Denis designed this advertising poster for the newspaper Depeche. Usually translated as dispatch, or flash, the name suggested the speed of modern communication. In the flowing lines of Art Nouveau, a woman - the quill pen in her hair suggests the paper's text - reads Depeche, hovering above a crowd of people who reach for its floating pages. The newspaper crosses telegraph wires, implying that the news travels speedily from distant places.
Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
1896
