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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Playbill lithograph for Le Théâtre Libre with cast lists and three sketched figures, two women and a reclining man.

Grand-Papa; Si c'était

Henri-Gabriel Ibels, 1895

Color lithograph of men in a café with red banquettes, a newspaper reader, and a waiter, beside a theatre programme listing t

La Belle au bois rêvant; Mariage d'argent; Ahasvère

Henri-Gabriel Ibels, 1893

Colour lithograph of two men in a tavern with a bartender, beside a printed theatre programme for Le Devoir.

Le Devoir

Henri-Gabriel Ibels, 1893

Color lithograph of a Théâtre Libre program showing two women in yellow dresses, a stout man in red trunks, and cast lists.

Le Grappin; L'Affranchie

Henri-Gabriel Ibels, 1892

Lithograph poster of seated women on a yellow beach with sailboats and two children walking toward the green sea.

Les Fossiles

Henri-Gabriel Ibels, 1892

Colored poster of workers pushing carts along a track under an orange sky, with cast list for Les Tisserands at right.

Les Tisserands

Henri-Gabriel Ibels, 1893

Theatre poster with a couple embracing by a tree under a low sun, a seated figure at right, and cast lists in print.

Inceste d'âmes; Mineur et soldat

Alphonse Osbert, 1896

Lithograph with a pointillist circular color diagram showing a sunset and sailboat, framed by colorful borders and letters T

Application du Cercle Chromatique de Mr. Ch. Henry

Paul Signac, 1888

Colorful lithograph with stippled circular landscape vignette, stylized letters, and a multicolored border, signed P. Signac.

Application du Cercle Chromatique de Mr. Ch. Henry

Paul Signac, 1889

Two-page 1896 theatre poster by Tancrède Synave: a couple embracing on the left, a smoking man and woman in yellow on the rig

L'Ame invisible; Mademoiselle Fifi

Tancrède Synave, 1896

Raphaël; Salomé

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1896

Lithograph poster of a woman with arms raised amid swirling smoke, with cast list and play title printed on the right.

La Fumée, puis la flamme

Louis Abel Truchet, 1895

Vallotton lithograph poster: a man reads at a table beside a child on the floor, with theatre announcement text in bold lette

Père

Félix Vallotton, 1894

Orange-tinted theatre programme for Le Cloître showing cloister arches, robed monks, cypress trees and a cast list.

Le Cloître (The Cloister)

Théo van Rysselberghe, 1900

Lithograph poster for Le Joug showing a nude woman carrying a yoke beside a fence, with a cast list in the lower right.

Le Joug

Pierre-Eugène Vibert, 1899

Dark brown lithographic theatre poster for Le Cuivre showing a seated woman in a patterned gown beside a window, with cast li

Le Cuivre

Pierre-Eugène Vibert, 1895

Vuillard theatre poster with dark forest trunks, a pale village, a figure at right, and cast list text at left.

Au-delà des forces humaines

Edouard Vuillard, 1897

Brown lithographic poster with sketched figures, a cross, a crowd, a feathered hat, and handwritten theatre and magazine text

Au dessus des forces humaines; L'Araignée de cristal

Edouard Vuillard, 1894

Orange and brown lithographic poster with an interior scene of figures beside curtains and a window, with cast lists printed

Les Soutiens de la société

Edouard Vuillard, 1896

Sketch and handwritten theatre announcement for Ibsen's Rosmersholm with cast list, figures drawn at left.

Rosmersholm

Edouard Vuillard, 1893

Brown lithographic theatre poster for Ibsen's Un Ennemi du peuple, with cast lists and dark decorative foliage framing the te

Un Ennemi du peuple

Edouard Vuillard, 1893

Dark lithographic poster with a window, pale seated figures, and printed French text listing titles and names.

Une Nuit d'Avril à Céos; L'Image

Edouard Vuillard, 1894

Théâtre Libre theatre program with color illustration of Pierrot struck by a man in green, plus handwritten verse and cast li

Chevalerie rustique; L'Amante du Christ; Marié; Les Bouchers

Adolphe Willette, 1888

Brand

Joseph Sattler, 1895

Pen and brown ink drawing of a procession with armed men, dancing women, a tambourine player and a child.

The Triumph of David

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1826

Crayon-sketched theatre poster for Ibsen's La Comédie de l'Amour with caricatured male figures and a printed cast list.

La Comédie de l'amour

Ernest La Jeunesse, 1897

Brown-ink poster by Abel-Truchet showing a gesturing man at a desk, a standing figure, and text announcing a play, 1896.

Des Mots! Des Mots!

Louis Abel Truchet, 1896

Charcoal and chalk study on tan paper of a head tilted back with closed eyes, resting on a pale surface.

Head of the Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey")

Edgar Degas, c. 1866

Graphite sketch of a reclining man with closed eyes and extended limbs on toned paper, by Edgar Degas.

Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey")

Edgar Degas, c. 1866

Charcoal sketch of a jockey riding a galloping racehorse in mid-stride, drawn on tan paper.

Racehorses (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey")

Edgar Degas, c. 1881