A La Place Clichy
Date1896
Artist
Eugène Grasset
(French illustrator, designer, and printmaker, 1841–1917)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for Place Clichy, Paris
Les Maitres de L'affiche, 1896, plate 18
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 14 1/16 × 9 1/16 in. (35.7 × 23 cm)
sheet: 15 1/2 × 11 1/8 in. (39.4 × 28.3 cm)
sheet: 15 1/2 × 11 1/8 in. (39.4 × 28.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-204
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis poster advertises La Place Clichy, a large Parisian commericial center, noting the availability of "Oriental imports," a description encompassing goods from various Asian countries. Eugene Grasset was a leader of the Art Nouveau movement. The style was quickly adapted to the commericial art of posters. Grasset was the French pioneer of a European trend - led by William Morris in England toward the unification of art and industry.
