Saxoléine

Ch�ret’s posters of the 1890s include Saxol�ine and Palais de glace, both of which typify his romantic vision of fin-de-si�cle women (the ‘ch�rettes’, as they came to be called), while Bal au Moulin Rouge (1889) and Loie Fuller (1893) precede and relate directly to the same subjects of his younger colleague Toulouse-Lautrec.

Ch�ret produced the advertising poster for Saxol�ine safety oil in 1891. The text at the bottom reads: “extra-white deodorized non-flammable; in leaded cans of 5 litres”.