Le Chat Noir, Ballade

Object detail

Media/Materials

Ink and collage on paper

Credit line

Museum purchase with the Helen and Everett H. Jones Purchase Fund

Accession number

TL2006.1

Object type

Drawings and Watercolors

Department

Theatre Arts

Location

Not on view

Further information

Steinlen's illustration for the song by Aristide Bruant was published in Le Chat Noir journal on August 9, 1884. The lyrics begin: I seek my fortune/Around the Chat Noir/By the light of the moon/In Montmartre, at night.

Signature & date

Signed, l.r.: Steinlen

Subject period

Art Nouveau

Maker

Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, b.1859, d.1923)

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Swiss European stylization Artistic Devices and Terms music Documents cityscapes/street scenes Subject Types groups People leisure Concepts night time cats Animals moon Nature monochrome Color black

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