MISTI LE CORSET PERSEPHONE.

76 1/2x50 inches.
Condition B+: restoration along vertical and horizontal folds; abrasions and creases in image.
Although Misti was an accomplished painter who exhibited regularly in Paris salons, he was most proud of his poster designs. Throughout the 1890s his posters all bear the imprint "Affiches Misti." Among his largest clients were department stores, bicycle companies and, after 1900, Les Fetes de Neuilly. His elegant and efficient style, which features beautiful, stylish women as often as possible, is a standard of fin-de-siecle renditioning. This poster (likely post-1910, judging from the hairstyles) advertises corsets, an age-of-elegance product soon to disappear. The charming image, with an atmosphere of high-class, intimate luxury perfectly reflects the product being promoted.