We’ll always have Paris…

Maurice Neumont

French, 1868-1930

Women for Everybody, 1896

Oil on paper

 

This small painting by poster designer

Maurice Neumont formed the book cover for the 1896 publication of Les Femmes à tout le monde (Women for Everybody), a collection oftwenty four

satirical scenes that illuminate the

often fraught relationships between

women and the different men in their

lives, be they husbands or illicit lovers.

 

Neuron’s picture introduces a seductively smiling. perhaps overly elegant

demimonde parading her finery in an

open carriage; a basket-carrying errand

girl ducking away from the unwanted attention of a top hatted gentleman;

and a modestly dressed working woman

walking serenely on the arm ofher beat.

Done