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Jeanne Bloch, Study for Lithograph in the album "The Café-Concert"
Jeanne Bloch, Étude por Lithographie dans l'album "Le Café-Concert"
Artist: Henri Gabriel Ibels (1867 - 1936) Primary
Date:
ca. 1893
19th century
Dimensions:
11.42 x 9.25 in. (29 x 23.5 cm)
Dimensions Extent:
image
Object Type:
Print
Creation Place:
Europe, France
Medium and Support:
Lithograph on paper
Credit Line:
Gift of James M. Reed, 2017.
Accession Number:
2017.35.509
This work is not currently on view
The café-concert, or cabaret, developed in Paris during the Second Empire, but came into its own in the last decades of the 19th century. Something of a cross between a bar and a concert hall, these venues featured nightly entertainments: popular songs, theatrical performances, and even acrobatic spectacles. Together with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Ibels published a portfolio of 21 lithographs featuring notable cabaret performers, including actress Jeanne Bloch, the star of comic performances at La Scala and La Cigale.
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Much aligned with Ibels’ favored subject matter of choice, entertainers and working class Parisians, this lithograph depicts comic singer Jeanne Bloch as part of a portfolio of lithographs completed with his contemporary, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Many avant-garde café-concert performers incorporated humor into their acts, whether verbally satirical or through body language, as a departure from the rigid, censored performances that dominated traditional Parisian entertainment. Bloch, who Ibels has accurately shown as a well-endowed woman, fits the common appearance of comic cabaret singers. She was known to use her size for a humorous effect by taking smaller male partners when singing romantic duets. Despite the success of the establishments in which Bloch performed, entertainers like herself were frequently underpaid.
Lydia Cross '20
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Much aligned with Ibels’ favored subject matter of choice, entertainers and working class Parisians, this lithograph depicts comic singer Jeanne Bloch as part of a portfolio of lithographs completed with his contemporary, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Many avant-garde café-concert performers incorporated humor into their acts, whether verbally satirical or through body language, as a departure from the rigid, censored performances that dominated traditional Parisian entertainment. Bloch, who Ibels has accurately shown as a well-endowed woman, fits the common appearance of comic cabaret singers. She was known to use her size for a humorous effect by taking smaller male partners when singing romantic duets. Despite the success of the establishments in which Bloch performed, entertainers like herself were frequently underpaid.
Lydia Cross '20
Exhibitions
Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, Connecticut, Prints from the Age of Rodin, October 4 - December 21, 2019
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Pictorial works produced by transferring images by means of a matrix such as a plate, block, or screen, using any of various printing processes. When emphasizing the individual printed image, use "impressions." Avoid the controversial expression "original prints," except in reference to discussions of the expression's use. If prints are neither "reproductive prints" nor "popular prints," use the simple term "prints." With regard to photographs, prefer "photographic prints"; for types of reproductions of technical drawings and documents, see terms found under "reprographic copies."
Pictorial works produced by transferring images by means of a matrix such as a plate, block, or screen, using any of various printing processes. When emphasizing the individual printed image, use "impressions." Avoid the controversial expression "original prints," except in reference to discussions of the expression's use. If prints are neither "reproductive prints" nor "popular prints," use the simple term "prints." With regard to photographs, prefer "photographic prints"; for types of reproductions of technical drawings and documents, see terms found under "reprographic copies."
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