ID: 700000075 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000075	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Collection of the Chat Noir (poster; Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923); 1898;)

Note: This poster advertises the sale of the collection of Rodolphe Salis, the owner of the Chat Noir, which opened in 1881 as the first cabaret in Paris. The artistic patrons of the Chat Noir and its irreverent performances of songs, plays, readings, and parades set the anything-goes tone for Montmartre. Its shadow theater, which combined colored lights, painted backgrounds, and sound effects with sophisticated cut-outs (emphasizing bold shapes and expressive silhouettes), was especially influential on the development of art in Toulouse-Lautrec’s circle.

Titles:

Collection of the Chat Noir (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Collection du Chat Noir (C,U,IN,French,U,U)

Sale of collection of Rodolphe Salis from Chat Noir (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

poster [300027221] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by function>, <declaratory and advertising artifacts>)

lithograph [300041379]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, planographic prints)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

European art

Creation Date: 1898

Creator Display:

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923) [preferred,VP]

printmaker Steinlen, Théophile Alexandre (French illustrator, printmaker, and painter, 1859-1923) [500017451]

Locations:

Creation: Montmartre [7013286] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) [500305147] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2002.62

Credit Line: Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund and partial gift of James A. Lapides

Display Materials: Poster, color lithograph printed in black and red

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

	lithography [300053271]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, planographic printing processes)

Dimensions: Framed: 155.3 x 117.2 x 4.8 cm (61 1/8 x 46 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.) Sheet: 139.4 x 99.1 cm (54 7/8 x 39 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	fin de siècle [300111540] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>)

General Subject:

advertising and commercial (preferred)

animals

Specific Subjects:

	Chat Noir (French cabaret, active 19th century) [500312924]
	.....(Corporate Bodies) (ULAN)

	Term Not Found
	..... AAT Candidate

	collection (object grouping) [300025976]
	.....(Objects Facet, Object Groupings and Systems (hierarchy name), object groupings, <object groupings by general context>) (AAT)

	Salis, Rodolphe (French painter and caricaturist, 1851-1897) [500312923]
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	Felis domesticus (species) [300265960]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Carnivora (order), Felidae (family), Felis (genus)) (AAT)

Provenance: International Poster Gallery, MA; Purchased by MFA, March 20, 2002

Inscriptions: signed in plate, lower left: Th. Stienlen; upper right: EXPOSITIONS / PARTICULIÈRE / LE DIMANCHE 15 MAI / PUBLIQUE / les 16.17.18 et / 20 MAI 1898 / AVANT LA VENTE / de 1 h. 1/2 à 2 h. 1/2; right side: VENTE / HÔTEL / DROUOT / Salle No. 1 / Les Lundi 16, Mardi 17 / Mercredi 18 & Venredi 20 MAI 1898 / À 2 HEURES 1/2 / COLLECTION / DU / CHAT NOIR / "Rodolphe SALIS" / DESSINS ORIGINAUX / Aquarelles Tableaux / Importante Composition / "PARCE DOMINE" / Par A. WILLETTE; in losenge below: Par le Ministère de / Me. J. GUILLET Commissaire-Priseur / 34 RUE BAUDIN / Assiste de / Mr. F. CUÉREL Peintre Expert / 10. Rue Eug#02ene-Sue / chez lesquels on distribue le Catalogue; vertically in right margin: Imp CHARLIE VERNEAU. 114 Rue Oberkampf.Paris.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Collection of the Chat Noir	........ [VP]
	........ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)
Collection du Chat Noir	........ [VP]
	........ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)
Sale of collection of Rodolphe Salis from Chat Noir	........ [VP]
	........ CDWA online (1995-) accessed 18 October 2010

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)