Mlle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs
Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
image: 20.8 × 19.5 cm · sheet: 34.3 × 27.1 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
2007.194
Tags
male
About this artwork
This vivid scene of a performance by the famed chanteuse Emilie Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs captures the spectacle and excitement of the outdoor café-concert in late 19th-century Paris. Here, the spotlighted singer performs her frenzied, comic dance, with arms raised and fingers splayed, in her trademark style épileptique.