LE PUNCH GRASSOT

Jules Chéret
LE PUNCH GRASSOT
lithograph
January 1896

January 1896

Original lithograph printed in colors on wove paper.

Signed and dated on the stone lower right Chéret / 95.

A fine impression of the definitive state, from the edition on this paper (there was also a small edition on Japan paper).  Transcribed from Chéret’s 1889 poster of the same title by artisans at Atelier Chéret and issued as plate 5 (of 256) in the series Le Maîtres de l’Affiche, bearing the blindstamp of the program (Lugt 1777c) in the sheet lower right.  Published by Jules Chéret; printed at Impremiere Chaix (Atelier Chéret), Paris. 

Catalog: Masters of the Poster pl. 5.