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Cheret, Jules
1836-1932
Jules Cheret was a French painter and lithographer who became famous as the master of the Belle Epoque poster.
Born to an artistic but not well-to-do family, his formal art studies were limited and he entered into an apprenticeship with a lithographer at the age of 13. He augmented this training with visits to Paris museums and eventually a drawing class.
A stint in London exposed him to the British approach to poster design and when he returned to the Continent in 1866 he combined this sensibility with the frivolity depicted by French Rococo masters Fragonard and Watteau for a unique, and very successful, style. Cheret's posters for the Folies Bergeres, the Moulin Rouge and the Olympia were hugely popular and his work became very much in demand.
In fact, Cheret's work became so identified with a certain "look", that he women of Cheret's posters became known as "Cherettes"! He was referred to as the "father of the women's liberation" as he legitimized formerly taboo behaviors, such as wearing low-cut bodices.
In 1895, Cheret created the "Maitres de l'affiche" collection, a significant art publication of smaller format reproductions of posters by such well known French artists as Gesmar, de Feure, Toulouse-Lautrec, and, of course, the "Cherettes".
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