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Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant
Black hat, red scarf, and a stare — the most famous poster of the cabaret age.
What
Lautrec’s poster for Aristide Bruant’s turn at the Ambassadeurs café-concert: the singer in black cape and broad hat, the great red scarf thrown over one shoulder, a silhouette of the crowd behind.
Why
Bruant made Lautrec put his name in letters that size or he would not go on — and the bluff produced the defining image of the cafés-concerts. A faithful reproduction of a public-domain lithograph at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Notice
Four flat colours and a scarf of pure vermilion — the poster carries across a boulevard.
“The room where the wine went round, distilled to one man’s glare.”
Format
The full-resolution, colour-managed file — yours to print and keep. Editions ship with their certificate.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution doesn't clear our floor for a physical print, so this piece is offered as a digital download only.
Size
$39.00
Honesty
ReproductionA faithful reproduction of a public-domain work. Source: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1948.450.
- Kind
- reproduction
- Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Era
- Paris, 1892
- Source
- The Art Institute of Chicago
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (source published 1930 or earlier). Cleared by open-access-registrar on 2026-07-18. The Art Institute of Chicago — public-domain / open-access. isPublicDomain:true; accession 1948.450; direct-fetch confirmed 2026-07-18.
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