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Yvette Guilbert: Sur la scène
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The diva of the Parisian café-concert, Guilbert was portrayed in high and low art throughout the Belle Époque. Toulouse-Lautrec portrayed the singer in her signature long black gloves and simple satin dress with deep V-neck that accentuated her thin figure and distinguished her from her heavily corseted colleagues. Here, enraptured members of the audience gaze adoringly from balconies and peep from behind the curtain.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineYvette Guilbert: Sur la scène, 1898. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901). Lithograph. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection, 1942.1061
