Engraving Art Déco Maurice Millière Portrait Woman Fashion at the Piano Music Score

  
Original antique aquatint engraving in colors on paper mounted on cardboard fixed under mat. Oval portrait of a Woman sitting at the Piano, one hand on the keyboard, the other on the sheet music. Date: 20th century, 1920s, dated 1924.

Style: Art Nouveau, Art Deco. Size: 46.5 x 38 cm image view, 60.8 x 52.5 cm total with mat. Signature: the engraving is signed in pencil at the bottom right. Numbering/Justification: the engraving is numbered 104 in pencil at the bottom left. Stamp/Embossed seal: at the bottom center in the margin.

Published by L'Estampe Moderne, 14 rue de Richelieu, Paris. Condition: good condition, traces of use, slightly sunned margins (see photos). "From 1917, Maurice Millière published many representations of women in revealing outfits: first in Fantasio (1917), then Bagatelles, La Vie parisienne, Le Frou-frou, Le Sourire, Gai-Paris, etc. Contemporary with those of Louis Icart, his "little women" would achieve great success outside of France: during the 1920s, American periodicals reprinted his creations, as well as those of Suzanne Meunier or Georges Léonnec, other illustrators of female figures, associated at the time with "Gai Paris," in other words, the Montmartre district and its many cabarets. Millière's little women were an inspiration for Alberto Vargas and Enoch Bolles, precursors of the "pin-up style.