A man in tails and a top hat leans in with his face creased in pleasure, and the woman in the red dress turns towards him.
Leonetto Cappiello (1875 to 1942), a Livorno native who worked in Paris from 1898, designed the poster in 1903 for E. & A. Mele. Mele was a department store in Naples. Ricordi, the Milan music publisher and lithographer, produced most of its advertising.
Cappiello contributed several designs to the Mele series.
On the poster
A woman in a floor-length red patterned dress, a grey fur stole over both shoulders and a green-feathered hat, turns towards a smiling man in a black tailcoat, top hat and white tie. He holds a cane. The ground is saturated forest-green. Bold yellow display lettering above reads "Novità per Signora" (New for ladies), and the large store logotype below reads "E. & A. MELE & Ci.
NAPOLI".
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.

