Jacques Debut

JACQUES DEBUT (Paris, late 19th-20th century).
"Cycles Rudge", 1897.
Poster.
Measurements: 158 x 115 cm; 167 x 121 cm (frame).

The poster in tender advertises bicycles of the Rudge brand of Lucien Charmet, whose workshop was located at 16 Rue Halévy, Paris.

Jacques Debut was a French painter and lithographer who would become a master of poster art. A student of Bonnal, he was a successful watercolorist. His works appeared in numerous magazines and he published numerous postcards of elegant women. He is known to have exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français.