"Cheret uses humorous line and exaggerates many angles to evoke the madcap
style of this equestrian comic and mime. Dressed as a dandy, Roussel performed
with a bicorn hat and red umbrella. Even when he became too old to ride these
props where his trademarks. A poster by Cappiello done almost 25 years later shows
Roussel minus horse but still in the same costume and comic as ever" (Rennert,
PAI-XXII, 277) "The achievement of Cheret was to create a world of
explosive happiness, and to paste it on the walls of Paris. As a painter he will
be remembered for what Huysmans calls his 'spirit of nervous gaiety', as a lithographer
for his superb technique, and as a poster artist for being the ancestor of all
modern advertising." (Abdy p.36)
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