Rijksmuseum

Portrait of the Singer Yvette Guilbert on Stage

Date

1894

Medium

paper

Institution

Rijksmuseum

This print was included in an album devoted to Yvette Guilbert. She specialized in melancholy chansons sung in a shrill or piercing tone. Lautrec here made a penetrating and slightly macabre portrait of the cabaret singer with her pale painted face. Some felt that Guilbert, not known for her beauty, should have put a stop to such representations of herself. Her craving for publicity had blinded her.

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