Répétition Générale Le Rire Comic Poster

France, c.1910

9 x 12 in (22 x 29 cm)

ID #LBXS-TURNOFTHECENTURY-c

"Répétition Générale"

Titled "Répétition Générale" or "Dress Rehersal", a group of French policemen play a selection of brass intruments as a fellow oficers stands on a wooden stool directing the rag-tag orchestra. This poster belonged to a copy of Le Rire, a French humor magazine or "journal humoristique" which was founded in 1894. In this humourous illustration, . The bottom test reads...

Piano! piano! sapristi...si vous commencez par rendre sourds les membres du jury, comment voulez vous ensuite qu'ils jugent de vorte mérite?

Piano! piano! Holy shit... if you start by deafening the members of the jury, how do you expect them to judge your merit?

Condition: Very good.

This poster is linen-backed. Email us at postermuseum@gmail.com for more details 07/05/2022

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