New Brunswick, NJ. - The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University opened the exhibit Toulouse-Lautrec and the French Imprint: Fin-de-siècle Posters in Paris, Brussels, and Barcelona through February 18, 2007.  This major exhibition of 130 important French, Belgian, and Spanish posters is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition to date dealing with French posters and their influence from the early nineteenth-century Romantic period to Art Nouveau.

The exhibition will feature fifteen works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec including his large 1891 poster for the Moulin Rouge, as well as the chief work of the other leading poster artists working in Paris, such as Jules Chéret and Alphonse Mucha among others.

Toulouse-Lautrec and the French Imprint is derived primarily from the Zimmerli Art Museum\'s extensive holdings of posters, one of the largest in the United States.  In addition, forty-six rare and significant works are on loan from the private Parisian collection of the descendants of Edmond Sagot, considered the most prominent and influential poster dealer of the period.  This will be the first time since the end of the nineteenth century that most of these posters from the Sagot collection have been on public view together.

In addition to posters, the exhibition will include a number of unique gouache and watercolor maquettes for posters; lavishly printed Art Nouveau period French and Belgian color lithographic programs for theater; circus and café-concert performances; and advertisements for a variety of products.

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