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Yvette Guilbert / Ambassadeurs
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (French, b. Switzerland, 1859–1923)
Title
Yvette Guilbert / Ambassadeurs
Artist
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (French, b. Switzerland, 1859–1923)
Date
1894
Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
interior frame window: 72 7/8 × 30 3/8 in. (185.1 × 77.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Credit Line
Gift of the Estate of Lenore Polack
Object Number
2022.17.18
On View
Not on view
Provenance
Lenore Polack (1930–2022), Omaha, Nebraska, by 2022;
Gift of the Estate of Lenore Polack to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2022.
Gift of the Estate of Lenore Polack to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2022.
Exhibition History
Café Society: Art and Sociability in Belle Époque Paris, Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Denmark, February 6–May 31, 2026; Café Society: Art and Sociability in Paris, 1855–1914, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, June 18–September 6, 2026; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, September 26, 2026–January 17, 2027, no. 42.
Published References
Exposition d’Affiches Artistiques, Françaises et Étrangères, modernes et rétrospectives, exh. cat. (Reims, 1896), no. 1035.
Ernest Maindron, Les Affiches Illustrées, 1886–1895 (Paris: G. Boudet, 1896), 67 (repro.)
Ernest de Crauzat, L’œuvre Gravé et Lithographié de Steinlen (Paris: Société de Propagation des livres d’art, 1913), no. 493 (repro.)
Paul Wember, Die Jugend Der Plakat (Krefeld, Germany: Scherpe-Verlag, 1961), 733.
Mildred Constantine, ed., Word & Image: Posters from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968), 31 (var.).
Ruth Malhorta, Marjan Rinkleff, and Bernard Schalicke, eds., Das Fruhe Plakat in Europa und den USA, vol. 2, French and Belgian Posters (Berlin: Mann Verlag, 1977), 781 (var).
Alain Weill, 100 Years of Posters of the Folies Bergère and Music Halls of Paris (New York: Images Graphiques, 1977), 26.
Phillip Dennis Cate and Susan Gill, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, 1982), 19.
Réjane Bargiel-Harry and Christophe Zagrodzki, Le livre de l’affiche (Paris: Musée de la publicité with Éditions Syros-Alternatives, 1985), 15.A2.
Alain Weill, The Poster: A Worldwide Survey (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985), 12.
Réjane Bargiel-Harry and Christophe Zagrodzki, Steinlen affichiste: catalogue raisonné (Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions du Grand Pont, 1986) no. 15.
Alain Weill, Art Nouveau: The Art Nouveau Poster (London: Frances Lincoln, 2015), 131.
Julie Pierotti, ed., Café Society: Art and Sociability in Belle Époque Paris, exh. cat. (Memphis, TN and Lewes, England: Dixon Gallery and Gardens and D Giles, 2026), 165, 166, 182, 206, no. 42, (repro.).
Ernest Maindron, Les Affiches Illustrées, 1886–1895 (Paris: G. Boudet, 1896), 67 (repro.)
Ernest de Crauzat, L’œuvre Gravé et Lithographié de Steinlen (Paris: Société de Propagation des livres d’art, 1913), no. 493 (repro.)
Paul Wember, Die Jugend Der Plakat (Krefeld, Germany: Scherpe-Verlag, 1961), 733.
Mildred Constantine, ed., Word & Image: Posters from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968), 31 (var.).
Ruth Malhorta, Marjan Rinkleff, and Bernard Schalicke, eds., Das Fruhe Plakat in Europa und den USA, vol. 2, French and Belgian Posters (Berlin: Mann Verlag, 1977), 781 (var).
Alain Weill, 100 Years of Posters of the Folies Bergère and Music Halls of Paris (New York: Images Graphiques, 1977), 26.
Phillip Dennis Cate and Susan Gill, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, 1982), 19.
Réjane Bargiel-Harry and Christophe Zagrodzki, Le livre de l’affiche (Paris: Musée de la publicité with Éditions Syros-Alternatives, 1985), 15.A2.
Alain Weill, The Poster: A Worldwide Survey (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985), 12.
Réjane Bargiel-Harry and Christophe Zagrodzki, Steinlen affichiste: catalogue raisonné (Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions du Grand Pont, 1986) no. 15.
Alain Weill, Art Nouveau: The Art Nouveau Poster (London: Frances Lincoln, 2015), 131.
Julie Pierotti, ed., Café Society: Art and Sociability in Belle Époque Paris, exh. cat. (Memphis, TN and Lewes, England: Dixon Gallery and Gardens and D Giles, 2026), 165, 166, 182, 206, no. 42, (repro.).
