Association pour L'Encouragement des Beaux-Arts / Salon de 1896
Date1896
Artist
Emile Berchmans
(Belgian poster artist, 1867–1947)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for the 1896 Salon of the Association for the Encouragmenet of the Fine Arts
Les Maitres de L'affiche, 1896, plate 108
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 8 11/16 × 12 7/8 in. (22.1 × 32.7 cm)
sheet: 11 5/16 × 15 1/2 in. (28.7 × 39.4 cm)
sheet: 11 5/16 × 15 1/2 in. (28.7 × 39.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-203
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextBorn in Liège, Belgium, Emile Berchmans specialized in wall-decoration. Like many artists of the period, he practiced several art forms and was also an etcher, lithographer, and draughtsman. During the popularity of the "affiche artistique," or artistic poster - which linked fine art to commercial design - he produced posters in the Art Nouveau style.
