Object/Work
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Catalog Level: item
Type:
poster
lithograph
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Classification
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Terms:
prints
and drawings
European
art
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Titles or Names
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Text: Chat Noir
Preference:
preferred
Type: inscribed
Language:
French
Text: Poster of a Black Cat, for the
Reopening of the Chat Noir Cabaret
Preference:
alternate
Type: descriptive
Language:
English
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Creation
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Creator Description: Théophile-Alexandre
Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923)
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Identity: Steinlen, Théophile-Alexandre
Role: printmaker
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Creation Date:
1896
Earliest:
1896 Latest:
1896
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Creation Place/Original Location: Montmartre
(Paris, France)
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Styles/Periods/ Groups/Movements
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Indexing Term: fin-de-siecle
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Measurements
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Dimensions Description: 61.6 x 39.62
cm (24 1/4 x 15 5/8 inches)
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Value: 61.1 Unit: cm
Type: height
Value: 39.62 Unit: cm
Type: width
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Materials and Techniques
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Description: lithograph
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Material Names:
ink
Role: medium
paper
Role: support
Technique Name:
lithography
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Inscriptions/ Marks
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Transcription or Description: along
right side and bottom: Prochainement / la très
illustre Compagnie du / Chat / Noir / avec / ses Pièces
d'Ombres / Célèbres, ses Poëtes
/ ses Compositeurs / Avec / Rodolphe Salis / Steinlen
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Subject Matter
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Indexing terms:
advertising/commercial
animal
Chat
Noir (cabaret)
Rodolphe
Salis (French performer, 1851-1897)
shadow
theater
guignols
domestic
cat
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Descriptive Note
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Text: Steinlen's poster advertises
the reopening of a cabaret, the Chat Noir in Montmartre.
Here the artist worked with several actors to present
avant-garde shadow theater, which investigated the
artistic and dramatic effects of silhouettes, starring
R. Salis as the popular, improvisational narrator
("bonimenteur") of each shadow performance.
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Current Location
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Repository Name/Geographic Location:
Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, California,
United States)
Repository Number:
11991.17
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Revised 28 August 2006
