{"id":29398,"date":"2026-08-31T18:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiek\/niet-gecategoriseerd\/frans-affiche-clown-lulu-1900\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:49:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:49:32","slug":"antique-french-clown-poster-lulu-1900","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiques\/miscellaneous\/miscellaneous-after-1880\/antique-french-clown-poster-lulu-1900\/","title":{"rendered":"Entr\u00e9e de Clownesse &#8211; E. Charle Lucas, 1897"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LULU, THE CLOWNESS OF F\u00c9LICIEN CHAMPSAUR, CA. 1897\/1900<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>Entr\u00e9e de Clownesse<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, French Belle \u00c9poque poster designed by <strong>E. Charle Lucas<\/strong>, ca. <strong>1897<\/strong>. Colour lithograph, here issued in reduced format by <strong>Imprimerie Chaix<\/strong> in Paris in <strong>1900<\/strong> as part of the celebrated series <em>Les Ma\u00eetres de l\u2019Affiche<\/em>. With the embossed <em>Les Ma\u00eetres de l\u2019Affiche \u2013 Imprimerie Chaix<\/em> blind stamp at lower right. Size: image 12.8 \u00d7 35 cm; sheet approx. 40 \u00d7 29 cm.<\/p>\n<p>Lulu was a creation of the writer and journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F%C3%A9licien_Champsaur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F\u00e9licien Champsaur<\/a>, who was deeply fascinated by the Parisian circus, pantomime and caf\u00e9-concert. He introduced her as early as 1888 in his one-act play <em>Lulu<\/em>, performed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nouveau_Cirque\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nouveau Cirque<\/a>. There she appeared as a <em>clownesse danseuse<\/em>, alongside a dandified <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlequin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Arlequin<\/em><\/a> and a comic caricature of the philosopher <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Schopenhauer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schopenhauer<\/a>. Champsaur continued to develop the character, eventually making her the heroine of his lavishly illustrated <em>Lulu, roman clownesque<\/em>, completed in 1900 and published in 1901.<\/p>\n<p>The female clown was a strikingly modern figure in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fin_de_si%C3%A8cle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>fin-de-si\u00e8cle<\/em><\/a> Paris. Women in the circus had traditionally appeared primarily as dancers, acrobats or equestriennes, but during the 1880s and 1890s female clowns also began to appear in the ring and on the variety stage. Champsaur\u2019s Lulu combines these worlds: she is at once clown, dancer and seductive woman of fashion. <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E._Charle_Lucas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">E. Charle Lucas<\/a> (1866\u20131925) accordingly presents her not as a grotesque comic figure, but as a self-assured star who literally displays her name to the audience.<\/p>\n<p>The design was particularly well suited to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ma%C3%AEtres_de_l%27Affiche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Les Ma\u00eetres de l\u2019Affiche<\/em><\/a>, the series directed by Jules Ch\u00e9ret in which Imprimerie Chaix issued reduced-format versions of the finest contemporary posters for collectors between 1895 and 1900. <em>Entr\u00e9e de Clownesse<\/em> appeared in the fifty-third instalment, in April 1900.<\/p>\n<p>Price: Euro 275,-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LULU, THE CLOWNESS OF F\u00c9LICIEN CHAMPSAUR, CA. 1897\/1900 \u201cEntr\u00e9e de Clownesse\u201d, French Belle \u00c9poque poster designed by E. Charle Lucas, ca. 1897. Colour lithograph, here issued in reduced format by Imprimerie Chaix in Paris in 1900 as part of the celebrated series Les Ma\u00eetres de l\u2019Affiche. With the embossed Les Ma\u00eetres de l\u2019Affiche \u2013 Imprimerie [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1404,1423],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-29398","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-miscellaneous","product_cat-miscellaneous-after-1880","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Antique French Clown Poster \u2013 Lulu, 1900<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Antique French clown poster of Lulu by E. Charle Lucas, issued in 1900 as part of Les Ma\u00eetres de l\u2019Affiche. 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