Eugene GRASSET (1845-1917)
Reader and Our Lady (Romantic Bookstore), 1895

Color stone lithograph on fine vellum
Signed in the plate
Dimensions 40 x 29 cm

The leaflet bears the publisher's stamp and the lithograph is also authenticated by the dry stamp of the publisher, L'Imprimerie Chaix.
The first edition was created in 1887 as an advertisement for the "Librairie Romantique".

The lithograph was published by Les Maîtres de l'Affiche in the Chaix printing house in 1895. It was part of this eponymous portfolio (plate no. 42) which represented reproductions of the most beautiful
illustrated posters by the great artists of the time.

In good general condition, some defects (tears and missing pieces) at the edges of the sheet not affecting the image (see photo)