Saxoléine
Chéret’s cheerful woman with a paraffin lamp – an advertisement for safe lamp oil.
Chéret made a series of posters for Saxoléine paraffin around 1891–1900. They show the poster selling a new, modern light to the home. Copies are in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Library of Congress.
Materials: Colour lithograph on paper
Manufacture: Printed from three or four stones at the Chaix works in Paris, in large runs.
The woman in motion – the type known as the chérette.
The lamplight turning the whole picture yellow and orange.