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Café Dancer
Louis Valtat
European Art
On View:
By the late nineteenth century, Parisian café concerts and dance halls, many in the bohemian neighborhood of Montmartre, had become carnival-like spaces of spectacle and sexual freedom, particularly for bourgeois male patrons. Louis Valtat’s vivid painting depicts one of the many working-class women who found employment in such venues performing the risqué, high-kicking dance known as the cancan, or chahut. She entertains a crowd of men in top hats, seen in the background.
MEDIUM
Oil on graphite over laid paper mounted to canvas
DATES
1894–1895
DIMENSIONS
24 1/8 × 18 1/8 in. (61.3 × 46 cm)
frame: 32 × 26 × 4 5/8 in. (81.3 × 66 × 11.7 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower left: "L.V" (underscored)
COLLECTIONS
European Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
1992.107.37
CREDIT LINE
Bequest of William K. Jacobs, Jr.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Louis Valtat (French, 1869–1952). Café Dancer, 1894–1895. Oil on graphite over laid paper mounted to canvas, 24 1/8 × 18 1/8 in. (61.3 × 46 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of William K. Jacobs, Jr., 1992.107.37. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1992.107.37_SL3.jpg)
IMAGE
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