Great Poster Art Nouveau Era Charity Party Students Toulouse 1909 Musee Paul Dupuy

Georges GROS / Imprimerie MOULLOT Charity feast of the students of Toulouse 1909 museum paul dupuy Color lithography (156 x 113 cms), 1909 The "student charity parties" organized by the General Association of students Toulouse (AGET) from 1886 are a legacy of the integration rituals of the Middle Ages, as well as the channeling of student energy for philanthropic purposes: every year at the time of the carnival, the association organizes a great masked ball whose benefits go to social works . From 1896, the ball is announced by a poster from a contest involving local artists - Marius Jognarelli (1896), Jean André Rixens (1902) Jules Lartigue (1908), Georges Gros (1914) ... This tradition disappears at the time of the First World War.