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
Rights
Public Domain
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.