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Vintage French Magazine Cover
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Le Frou-Frou
Le plus gros tirage des journaux humoristiques illustrés
This image is a famous vintage advertising poster for a French humorous magazine called Le Frou-Frou. It was created around 1900 by the artist Lucien-Henri Weil, who used the pseudonym Weiluc.
Poster Details
Artist: Lucien-Henri Weil (Weiluc)
Year: 1900
Purpose: To promote the new, risqué weekly magazine Le Frou-Frou, which featured bawdy jokes, cartoons, and stories of Parisian life. Readers are instructed to "Demand it everywhere"
Design: The provocative Art Nouveau design shows a woman with sly eyes lounging on a sofa, revealing her legs in black stockings beneath a cascade of white petticoats.
Iconic Element: The woman is smoking a cigarette, a highly provocative act for a woman at the time, and the smoke elegantly forms the magazine's title.
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Le Frou-Frou
Le plus gros tirage des journaux humoristiques illustrés
This image is a famous vintage advertising poster for a French humorous magazine called Le Frou-Frou. It was created around 1900 by the artist Lucien-Henri Weil, who used the pseudonym Weiluc.
Poster Details
Artist: Lucien-Henri Weil (Weiluc)
Year: 1900
Purpose: To promote the new, risqué weekly magazine Le Frou-Frou, which featured bawdy jokes, cartoons, and stories of Parisian life. Readers are instructed to "Demand it everywhere"
Design: The provocative Art Nouveau design shows a woman with sly eyes lounging on a sofa, revealing her legs in black stockings beneath a cascade of white petticoats.
Iconic Element: The woman is smoking a cigarette, a highly provocative act for a woman at the time, and the smoke elegantly forms the magazine's title.
