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Divan Japonais
The café-concert in black and gold — the whole late night in one silhouette.
What
Lautrec’s poster for the Divan Japonais at 75 rue des Martyrs: a woman in a sweeping black gown at the café-concert, the critic Édouard Dujardin beside her, the orchestra’s neck of a double bass cutting up from below.
Why
The single most elegant thing lithography ever did for nightlife — the poster that hung the door of a Montmartre cabaret. A faithful reproduction of a public-domain lithograph at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Notice
The whole figure is one flat black shape; the drama is entirely in the gold chair and the yellow gloves it against.
“The poster promised the evening before you were through the door.”
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, 1949.1002.
- Kind
- reproduction
- Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Era
- Paris, 1893
- 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 1949.1002; direct-fetch confirmed 2026-07-18.
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