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Toussaint was primarily a painter, but when he created this image he achieved instant recognition in the field of poster design. The colours are soft and glowing, and the lines have the flowing quality typical of Art Nouveau imagery. Le Sillon is French for furrow, and the image symbolises the aims and expression of a young artist making his mark.","physicalDescription":"A poster showing a woman with a long blonde hair, surrounded by flowers, harvesting with a sickle. 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London: HMSO, 1964.","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'Le Sillon'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"'Le Sillon' is written across the image, 'Affiches d'Art O. De Rycker & Cie Bruxelles' is on the bottom","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Lettered within th design"},{"content":"'Affiches d'Art O. 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Poster designed by Fernand Toussaint, with an illustration of a woman harvesting and surrounded by flowers.  Colour lithograph, Belgium, 1895.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 </u>.  London: HMSO, 1964:\r\nThe full text of the entry is as follows:\r\n\r\n\"<b>TOUSSAINT, Fernand (worked c.1895-c.1923)</b> \r\n \r\nCercle de Peinture 'Le Sillon'.  Belgian poster, 1895. \r\n<i>Colour lithograph.  Size of sheet</i> 109.9 x 90.2 cm. \r\nE.1429-1963 \r\n \r\n<i>Note:</i> This poster was No.1506 in 'L'Exposition d'Affiches Artistiques Françaises & Etrangères Modernes & Retrospectives', held at Rheims, 7 to 17 November 1896.  It was reproduced as Pl.80 in <i>Les Maitres de l'Affiche</i>, Paris, 1897, of which an example is in the Department of Prints and Drawings, E.3105-1938.\""},{"reference":{"text":"Henriot, Alexandre <i>Catalogue de l'exposition d'affiches artistiques, françaises et étrangères, modernes et rétrospectives</i> Reims, 1896","id":"AUTH354624"},"details":"1506","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"A an accompanying note in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche, 1897 (second volume) reads:\r\n\r\n'Glory is personified by a young winged girl standing in a wheat field, holding a sheaf of wheat in one hand, and a sickle in the other, and reaping flowers for the elect'."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Illustrated on p.84 of 'La Belle Epoque' by Yolande Oostens-Wittamer with the accompanying note:\r\n\r\n'The artistic movement Le Sillon did not take a definitely realistic direction until after 1899, which explains the presence of this symbolist poster in 1895'."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"flowers","id":"x35571"},{"text":"harvest","id":"x35210"},{"text":"sickle","id":"x34976"},{"text":"hair","id":"AAT11814"}],"contentConcepts":[{"text":"exhibition","id":"x37997"}],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900'\r\n\r\nThis poster advertises an exhibition by the artists' group <i>Le Sillon (The Furrow)</i>. Its designer, the painter and poster artist Fernand Toussaint  studied at the Brussels Academy under Portaels. He contributed to exhibitions held by <i>Le Sillon</i> and <i>La Libre Esthétique</i>, and also, 1910, to the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in Paris. The poster for <i>Le Sillon</i> was said in 1897 to be his earliest. Toussaint entrusted his posters to the famous Brussels lithographer O. de Rycker, who excelled in the printing of subtle, luminous colours.","date":{"text":"1987-2006","earliest":"1987-01-01","latest":"2006-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["E.1429-1963"],"accessionNumberNum":"1429","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1963,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-07-08","recordCreationDate":"2004-01-14","availableToBook":false}}