Discover the stunning Les Maîtres de l'Affiche - 256 colour lithographic plates used to create an art publication during the Belle Epoque in Paris. This collection, curated by Jules Chéret, the pioneer of modern poster art, features works from ninety-seven talented artists.

The varied selection of prints was sold in packages of four and delivered monthly to subscribers. On sixteen occasions during the selling period between December 1895 through to November 1900, the monthly package included a bonus lithograph.

The collection featured contributions from the following artists:-

Hugo d'Alesi  (1849-1906) - 2 images
Anonymous - 2 images
Louis Anquetin  (1861-1932) - 1 image, Marguerite Dufay
Ferdinand Bac (1859-1952) - 1 image, Scala Yvette Guilbert
Emmanuel Barcet (1870-1942) - 1 image, Theatre Pompadour
Árpád Basch (1873-1944) - 1 image, Kuhnee
Beggarstaffs, who were William Nicholson (1872-1949)  James Pryde (1866-1941) - 6 images
Émile Berchmans (1867-1947) - 1 image, Ville de Liege Salon de 1896
Paul Berthon (1872-1909) - 3 images
Giuseppe Boano (1872-1936) - 1 image, Teatro Regio
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) - 1 image, La Revue Blanche
Firmin Bouisset (1859-1925) - 1 image, Chocolat Menier
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel (1881-1949) - 2 images
Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) - 4 images
Emmanuel Poiré (Caran d'Ache) (1858-1909) - 1 image, Exposition Russe
William Carqueville (1871-1946) - 2 images, Lippincott's covers
Johann Georg van Caspel (1870-1928) - 1 image, W. Hoogenstraaten
Henri Cassiers (1858-1944) - 1 image, Red Star Line
Frédéric-Auguste Cazals (1865-1941) - 1 image, 7th Exposition
E. Charle Lucas (1871-1930) - 3 images
Alexandre Charpentier (1856-1909) - 1 image, Gres Emile Miller
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) - 1 image
Jules Chéret (1836-1932) - 68 images
Adolphe Crespin (1859-1944) - 2 images (1 with ÉdouardDuyck 1856-1897)
Maurice Denis (1870-1943) - 1 image, La Depeche Grand Format
Auguste Donnay (1862-1921) - 1 image, Ville de Liege
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) - 1 image, Modern Art 1896
ÉdouardDuyck (1856-1897) - with Adolphe Crespin (1859-1944) - 1 image, Spa Ferme de Frahinfaz
Leigh Ellis - with Fred Hyland - 1 image, The Gay Parisienne
Henri Evenepoel (1872-1899) - 1 image, Anvers et son Exposition
Georges Fay (1871-1916) - 2 images
Fernand Fernel (1865-1933) - 2images
Georges de Feure (1868-1943) - 5 images
Otto Fischer(1870-1947) - 2 images
Paul Gustav Fischer (1860-1934) - 1 image, Reklame Plakater
Jean-Louis Forain (1852-1931) - 2 images
Gustave Fraipont (1849-1923) - 1 image, Pierrefonds
Léo Gausson (1860-1944) - 1 image, Lessive Figaro
Henry Gerbault (1863-1930) - 1 image, Chocolate Carpentier 1895
Géruzez, Victor Eugène (Crafty) (1840-1906) - 1 image, Horse  carriage
Alice Russell Glenny (1858-1924) - 1 image, Women's Edition Buffalo Courier
Fernand Louis Gottlob (1873-1935) - 2 images
Eugène Grasset (1845-1917) - 7 images
Maurice Greiffenhagen (1862-1931) - 1 image, Pall Mall Budget
Jules Grün (1868-1934) - 3 images
Albert Guillaume (1873-1942) - 2 images
Dudley Hardy (1867-1922) - 5 images
Frank Hazenplug (1873-1931) - 1 image, Living Posters
Adolfo Hohenstein (1854-1928) - 2 images
Fred Hyland - 2 images (1 is a collaboration with Leigh Ellis)
Vojtěch Hynais (1854-1925) - 1 image, Narodopisna
Henri-Gabriel Ibels (1867-1936) - 5 images
Rudolph Koller (1828-1905) - 1 image, Jubilaums-Ausstellung
Charles Léandre (1862-1934) - 2 images
Lucien Lefèvre (1862-1895) - 4 images, inc. Electricine
Vincent Lorant-Heilbronn (1874-1933) - 1 image, Messaline
Maximilien Luce (1858-1941) - 1 image, A La Scala
Giovanni Mataloni (1869-1944) - 1 image, Incandescenza
Lucien Métivet (1863-1932) - 1 image, Ambassadeurs Eugenie Buffet
Georges Meunier (1869-1942) - 5 images
Henri Meunier (1873-1922) - 3 images
Ferdinand Mifliez Misti (1865-1922) - 2 images
Étienne Moreau-Nélaton (1859-1927) - 5 images
Albert Morrow (1863-1927) - 1 image, New Woman Comedy Theatre London
Alfons Mucha (1860-1939) - 6 images
Gaston Noury (1865-1936) - 1 image, Pour les Pauvres
Viktor Oliva (1861-1028) - 1 image, Topicuv Salon
Manuel Orazi (1860-1934) - 1 image, Theodora
Jean dePaléologue (Pal) (1855-1942) - 1 image, Olympia 1896
Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) - 1 image, The Century, Midsummer Holiday August 1895
René Péan (1875-1955) - 2 images
Edward Penfield (1886-1925) - 2 images, both Harper's covers
Julius Mendes Price (1857-1924) - 1 image, Daly's Theatre
Henri Privat-Livemont (1861-1936) - 2 images inc. Absinthe Robette, Casino de Caborg
Armand Rassenfosse (1862-1934) - 2 images
Maurice Réalier-Dumas (1860-1928) - 3 images
Ethel Reed (1874-1926) - 2 images
Fritz Rehm (1871-1928) - 1 image, Cigaretten Laferme Dresden
Louis Rhead (1857-1926) - 3 images
Alexandre de Riquer (1856–1920) - 2 images
Manuel Robbe (1872-1936) - 1 image, L'Eclatante
Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (1859-1938) - 1 image, Theatre National Louise
Auguste Roedel (1859-1900) - 4 images
Joseph Sattler (1867-1931) - 1 image, Pan
Carlos Schwabe (1866-1926) - 1 image, Salon Rose Croix
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923) - 8 images inc. Lait pur Stérilisé
Léopold Stevens (1823-1906) - 1 image, Eugenie Buffet
M. Louise Stowell (1861-1930) - 1 image
Henry Atwell Thomas (1834-1904) - 1 image, Rochesterny
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) - 5 images
Fernand Toussaint (1873-1956) - 1 image, Le Sippon
Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) - 1 image, La Pepiniere Revue
Adolphe Willette (1857-1926) - 5 images
Josef Rudolf Witzel (1867-1924) - 1 image, Deutsche-Kunst und Dekoration
Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864-1940) - 2 images

This download features 256 hi-res images, in jpeg format. The images are all 300dpi and range in size from 1953 pixels wide/tall to 8934 pixels wide/tall.

The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.