Salon des Cent - Exposition of Original Drawings and Posters, November 9 - December 1896

Armand M. Rassenfosse

1896

A bright orange lithographic poster in which the artist entices passersby to the Salon des Cent exhibition, using a sensuous, mythlike nude holding a tiny seated figure to advertise original drawings and prints.

What strikes you first is the bold, even orange ground framed by deep black type, with a softly modeled reclining nude whose flowing contours and delicate hatchwork draw the eye to the small puppet‑like figure she studies with a hand mirror.

This work captures how late‑19th‑century lithography and poster design brought Art Nouveau imagery and modern graphic typography into public life, helping to make exhibitions and avant‑garde art part of everyday urban culture.

Palette

Art Terms

Lithography Art Nouveau(New Art) Poster Design Graphic design Typography Figurative

Exhibitions

Women of the Nineties: Fin-de-Siècle Prints

1979

Symbolism, Synthesists, and the Fin-de-Siècle

1972

The Nude: Thirty 20th-Century Drawings

1970

A History of the Modern Poster

1941