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ARTIST: FREDERIC-AUGUSTE CAZALS (1865-1941) SIZE: 15 3/4 x 25 1/4 in./40 x 64 cm PRINTER: Imp. Bourgerie, Paris DESCRIPTION: Shown examining pictures on the wall (one of which is Jossot’s design for another Salon des Cent poster for an exhibition earlier that same year) are symbolist poet Paul Verlaine in the black hat and coat, and Jean Moreas, founder of the Ecole Romane. Cazal’s design “places part of its text on the wall of a realistic exhibition hall, with the letter ‘S’ in the word ‘Salon’ decoratively replaced by a swan. Words become a natural part of the interior setting and function as the sign entitling the exhibition... This kind of pictorial trick was a convenient system of integrating text and image... [This poster] also illustrates the tendency of some French artists at the end of the century to make personal puns within their works and to include depictions of friends and colleagues” (Cate, in Lauder, p. 69). (Art Nouveau; Salon des Cent; Exhibitions; Posters on Posters)