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has, I believe, done only one poster, is Goissaud. His design was to advertise the "Société des miniaturistes et enlumineurs de France," and is a lithograph in one colour. Among the Salon des Cent series we have, besides the admirable posters of Grasset and Ibels already alluded to, a very grotesque and effective little design by Jossot. It represents an amazing old gentleman of weird aspect, in cocked hat, paying his franc for admission to the exhibition. Of its kind it is effective enough. Another, by Cazoly, with a curious portrait of Paul Verlaine is reproduced here.
It is certainly with no view to hurt the feelings of those artists whose names do not head this chapter that they are represented by a mere et cetera. It must be understood that one of the least polite of contractions, in this case, involves no discourtesy whatsoever.
For example, I may instance such able work as Grün's "Le Carillon: cabaret artistique." Few posters are more vivid or more actual than this. The price of it is a matter of pence, and it should certainly not be neglected by those whom it amuses to collect the affiche illustré. Grün, in addition to "Le Carillon," has produced "Poléon-Revue: Décadent's Concert," and in addition a design for an insurance company. One of the most charming of the more recent French posters is one by H. Gray, dealing with "La Prétentaine," a play produced some time ago at the Nouveau Théâtre. In addition he has advertised "La Bonita" at the Cirque d'Eté, "Les Mousquetaires," at the same place, "Les Saltimbanques" at the Cirque d'Hiver, and the bal masqué at the Théâtre de l'Opéra. The last is perhaps the best known of his affiches. Among others, Bac has done a poster for Yvette Guilbert at the Horloge, which is signed and dated 1892. The bicycling craze has called into existence a perfect torrent of posters, and Bac, together with Gray, Guillaume, Lunel, and Paleologue, have produced posters of more or less interest. A gentleman who is sufficiently modest not to state his name, did a design which called forth the wrath of the authorities. Whereupon an artist called Lepur designed an affiche bearing the significant legend, of which this is a translation: "Grand choice of vine-leaves (fig-leaves) of all sizes for posters, as demanded by the virtuous journals, the 'T(emps '), the 'G(aulois '), and the 'D(ébats ')."
The following is a list, with the names of typical examples of their work, of some other French artists of distinction who have designed posters: Barbizet ("La branche cassée"), Bouisset (F.) ("Bazar de l'Hôtel-de-Ville," "Exposition de jouets," "Chocolat Menier"), Desicy (H.) ("Un héritage, roman"), Dutriac ("Ambassadeurs: Danseuses Espagnols"), Faria ("Ba-ta-clan: [Illustration: 0189] Paulus"), Dufay ("Portrait,") ("Les Rey Nol's)," Galice (G.) ("Concert parisien: Esther Lekain," "Fête des Fleurs," "Paulan Brébion," "Scala: Jeanne Bloch"), Guydo ("Eldorado: Aimée Eymard"), Honer ("Concert parisien: Bonnaire"), Hope ("Gaieté: Tour de Nesle"), Huvey ("Gras-side"), Lamy (L.) ("Le capitaine Henriot, opéra comique," "Théâtre national lyrique"), Lebégue (L.) ("Bals travestes et tableaux vivants"), Lefèvre (L.) ("Cacao lacté," "Electricine," "L'hiver à Nice"), Levy (E.) ("Châtelet Michel Strogoff," "Cirque d'Hiver: Caravane dans le désert," "Folies Bergère: Vue de la salle," "Petit national: Le prince Mouffetard"), Meunier (G.) ("Papier à cigarettes Job," "Parfumerie Edéa," "Le Sahara à Paris: Champ de Mars"), Truchet (A.) ("Cabaret des Quat'z' Arts," "Eldorado: Alice Berthier.")
It will have been noticed already how great apart the music-hall and the café chantant play in the history of the pictorial poster. Yvette Guilbert has been the cause of a baker's dozen of affiches; Anna Thibaud (that charming singer of the songs of Béranger); Anna Held, with her curious manner, and still more curious appearance; Irène Henri, of intense personality; Jane Avril, and May Belfort; to say nothing of Aristide Bruant, of Caudieux, of Paulus, and the rest of the school who have made the music-hall stage of France a matter of no small importance