La Belle Jardiniere. Calendar for 1898. With 12 separate full-page color plates by Henri Boutet de Monvel (January), Leon Sabattier (February), Maurice Orange (March), E. De Monzaigle (April), Paul Destez (May), Felicien De Myrbach (June), Reichan (July), Leon L’Hermitte (August), A.Parys (September), Emile Caran D’Ache (October), Leopold Kowalski (November), and Luc-Olivier Merson (December). (Imprimerie de Vaugirard, Paris [1898]). 8x10" on glossy paper, each plate with two holes in upper margins, as issued, for silk ties which are no longer present. In the original unsigned Art Nouveau portfolio folder.
Issued as a promotion for a leading chain of clothing shops in Paris, Lyon, Marseilles and five other French cities. The plates, by prominent and less-known Belle Epoque artists, depict a variety of scenes, some sporting and military, but others more characteristic of each artist’s style, like the charming five singing children drawn by Boutet de Monvel. A very handsome ephemeral production.