The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 23, 2024
Mlle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs
1877–78
(French, 1834–1917)
Image: 20.8 x 19.5 cm (8 3/16 x 7 11/16 in.); Sheet: 34.3 x 27.1 cm (13 1/2 x 10 11/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2007.194
Catalogue raisonné: Delteil 49; Adhémar 42, Reed and Shapiro 31
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
This print is one of several works Degas made depicting Mademoiselle Bécat based on his fascination with the culture of Parisian café-concerts.Description
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.- Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 17, 2015).Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.194