# Les Maîtres de l'Affiche

Maîtres de l'Affiche (Masters of the Poster) refers to 256 color lithographic plates used to create an art publication during the Belle Époque in Paris, France. The collection, reproduced from the original works of ninety-seven artists in a smaller 11 x 15 inch format, was put together by Jules Chéret, the father of poster art.

## Publishing history

The varied selection of prints were sold in packages of four and delivered monthly to subscribers. On sixteen occasions during the selling period between December 1895 through November 1900, the monthly package included a bonus of a specially created lithograph.
A complete set, in five volumes, was sold in 2014 for US$43,450.
* Les Maîtres de l'affiche: volume 1 (in French). Paris: Chaix. 1895.
    Volume 1 contains plates 1 to 48 and two original drawings by Jules Chéret.
    The posters are on the Commons page : Posters in volume 1 of Maîtres de l'affiche
* Les Maîtres de l'affiche: volume 2 (in French). Paris: Chaix. 1896.
    Volume 2 contains plates 49 to 96and two original drawings by Jules Chéret and Adolphe Willette.
    The posters are on the Commons page : Posters in volume 2 of Maîtres de l'affiche
* Les Maîtres de l'affiche: volume 3 (in French). Paris: Chaix. 1898.
    Volume 3 contains plates 97 to 144 and four original drawings by Jules Chéret, Georges de Feure, Henri-Gabriel Ibels and Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
    The posters are on the Commons page : Posters in volume 3 of Maîtres de l'affiche
* Les Maîtres de l'affiche: volume 4 (in French). Paris: Chaix. 1899.
    Volume 4 contains plates 145 to 192 and four original drawings by Jules Chéret, Crafty (artist) [fr], Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen et Adolphe Willette.
    The posters are on the Commons page : Posters in volume 4 of Maîtres de l'affiche
* Les Maîtres de l'affiche: volume 5 (in French). Paris: Chaix. 1900.
    Volume 5 contains plates 193 to 240 and four original drawings by Paul Berthon, Jules Chéret(2) et Charles Léandre. (plates No. 204 et No. 212 are missing)
    The posters are on the Commons page : Posters in volume 5 of Maîtres de l'affiche

## Selected posters

All the poster, in alphabetical order, can be seen on the Commons page: Les Maîtres de l'Affiche.
* Jules Chéret: Fête des Fleurs in Bagnères-de-Luchon
* Alice Russell Glenny (American, 1858–1924): Women's Edition Buffalo Courier
* Exposition Eugène Grasset au Salon des Cent, 1898
* Dudley Hardy "To-Day" magazine, edited by Jerome K. Jerome
* Lucien Lefèvre [fr] Electricine (1897)
* Étienne Moreau-Nélaton (1859–1927): Exposition des "Arts de la Femme".
* T. Privat-Livemont: Absinth Robette
* T. Privat-Livemont: Casino de Cabourg
* Louis Rhead: Read The Sun (NYC)
* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Jane Avril

## The artists

Indexes of posters in the collection are given after names of their authors.
* Hugo d'Alesi [fr] (66, 171)
* Louis Anquetin (150)
* Anonymous (176, 236)
* Ferdinand Bac (19)
* Emmanuel Barcet [fr] (202)
* Árpád Basch (208)
* Beggarstaffs (16, 63, 107, 168, 184)
* Émile Berchmans [fr] (108)
* Paul Berthon (175, 227)
* Giuseppe Boano [fr] (192)
* Pierre Bonnard (38)
* Firmin Bouisset (47)
* Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel (26, 106)
* Will H. Bradley (52, 152, 172)
* Caran d'Ache (70)
* William Carqueville [fr] (44, 132)
* Henri Cassiers (228)
* Frédéric-Auguste Cazals (15)
* E. Charle Lucas [fr] (155, 210, 234)
* Alexandre Charpentier (131)
* Jules Chéret (1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49, 53, 57, 61, 65, 69, 73, 77, 81, 85, 89, 93, 97, 101, 105, 109, 113, 117, 121, 125, 129, 133, 137, 141, 145, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165, 169, 173, 177, 181, 185, 189, 193, 197, 201, 205, 209, 213, 217, 221, 225, 229, 233, 237)
* Crafty (artist) [fr]
* Adolphe Crespin [fr] (28,91)
* Maurice Denis (140)
* Auguste Donnay [fr] (59)
* Arthur Wesley Dow (36)
* Édouard Duyck [fr] (28)
* Leigh Ellis (96)
* Henri Evenepoel (116)
* Georges Fay [fr] (183, 231)
* Fernand Fernel [fr] (154, 207)
* Georges de Feure (10, 130, 146, 199)
* Otto Fischer (artist) [fr] (127)
* Paul Gustav Fischer (68, 84)
* Jean-Louis Forain (51, 186)
* Gustave Fraipont (218)
* Léo Gausson (71)
* Henry Gerbault (83)
* Alice Russell Glenny (60)
* Auguste Gorguet [fr]
* Fernand Louis Gottlob (219, 239)
* Eugène Grasset (18, 42, 50, 98, 126, 158, 174)
* Maurice Greiffenhagen (24)
* Jules Grün (103, 159, 223)
* Albert Guillaume (30, 163)
* V. Guillet.
* Dudley Hardy (4, 8, 92, 148, 216)
* Frank Hazenplug [fr] (87)
* Adolfo Hohenstein (160, 180)
* Fred Hyland (96, 120)
* Vojtěch Hynais (56)
* Henri-Gabriel Ibels (6,78, 102, 138)
* Rudolph Koller (188)
* Charles Léandre (206)
* Lucien Lefèvre [fr] (11, 55, 90, 135)
* Vincent Lorant-Heilbronn [fr] (187)
* Maximilien Luce (139)
* Giovanni Mataloni [fr] (72)
* Lucien Métivet (22)
* Georges Meunier (artist) [fr] (7, 31, 62, 147, 167)
* Henri Meunier (40, 156, 196)
* Ferdinand Mifliez Misti [fr] (86, 215)
* Étienne Moreau-Nélaton (58, 118, 162, 178, 198)
* Albert Morrow (79)
* Alfons Mucha (27, 94, 114, 144, 166, 182)
* Gaston Noury (39)
* William Nicholson (232)
* Viktor Oliva (100)
* Manuel Orazi (214)
* Pal (35)
* Maxfield Parrish (123)
* René Péan [fr] (191, 211)
* Edward Penfield (20, 115)
* Julius Mendes Price (3)
* Privat-Livemont (88, 104)
* Puvis de Chavannes (54)
* Armand Rassenfosse (12, 224)
* Maurice Réalier-Dumas [fr] (23, 111, 226)
* Ethel Reed (99, 128)
* Fritz Rehm [fr] (124)
* Karel Reisner [fr]
* Louis Rhead (8, 200, 220)
* Alexandre de Riquer (64, 203)
* Manuel Robbe (143)
* Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (230)
* Auguste Roedel [fr] (75, 179, 195, 235)
* Joseph Sattler (67)
* Carlos Schwabe (74)
* Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (34, 46, 95, 134, 170, 190)
* Léopold Stevens [fr] (151)
* M. Louise Stowell (76)
* Henry Atwell Thomas [fr] (222)
* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (2, 82, 110, 122, 238)
* Fernand Toussaint (80)
* Félix Vallotton (119)
* Johann Georg van Caspel (240)
* Adolphe Willette (14, 43, 142, 194)
* Josef Rudolf Witzel [fr] (164)
* Charles Herbert Woodbury (32, 112)