Four children, one piano and a great deal of noise.
Léon Husson designed the lithograph for Maison Poussier, a music retailer with shops at 6 Rue Aubert in Épinal and 90 Grande Rue in Remiremont, in the Vosges. The lower panel lists the brands it carried: Gaveau, Pleyel and Érard pianos, Aeolian player mechanisms, a lutherie workshop, and Pathé phonographs and discs. The printer, Imprimerie V. Idoux & Cie. of Nancy, is named in the imprint at the foot of the sheet.
Husson was a Lorraine illustrator, born in 1898 in Circourt-sur-Mouzon. From 1923 he worked as a commercial artist at Art et Publicité, the Nancy studio run by Victor Idoux.
On the poster
Four children fill a deep black stage around an upright piano. An accordion player perches on the lid, a blonde girl in white reads sheet music at the keys, a boy in a yellow suit draws a bow across his violin, and a fourth child in a checked suit blows a trumpet from the piano stool. A red-horn gramophone stands on a side table, and records and loose pages lie at their feet.
Husson draws them in a loose, warm cartoon style, with rounded faces and bright flat colour. A bold yellow headline runs across the sheet.
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.
