The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
Jane Avril
The dancer he loved best, caught mid-kick.
- Work
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jane Avril (Jardin de Paris)
- Artist / creator
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)
- Origin & date
- Paris, 1893
- Held by
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 30x40 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
Of all the Montmartre performers, Jane Avril was Lautrec’s favourite — intelligent, melancholy, a dancer who performed almost to herself — and he gave her his best poster. She kicks one leg high at the Jardin de Paris, her face rapt and inward; and in a stroke of pure invention the neck of a double bass rears up from the orchestra pit in the foreground, its scroll and the player’s hand framing the whole scene like a curtain drawn back. The idea is startlingly modern, a century ahead of graphic design. Elegant, strange and tender all at once — the poster as a portrait of a real, particular person.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
