Toulouse-Lautrec:
Eldorado: Aristide Bruant
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AFTER opening at the Ambassadeurs, Aristide Bruant performed at the Eldorado, a huge and elegant café-concert on the Boulevard de Strasbourg. For the poster for this appearance Lautrec simply traced the figure of Bruant onto the lithographic stone from the Ambassadeurs poster, the orientation being reversed in the printing process.

This reuse of an already familiar portrait was in line with Bruant's strategy of hammering a single image of himself into the public's mind. It worked. La Vie Parisienne complained, "Who will deliver us from the likeness of Aristide Bruant?...You can't go anywhere without finding yourself face to face with him."

Eldorado: Aristide Bruant
1892; Desloge 84; W P5; D 344
Lithograph in five colors. 53 1/2 x 37 inches.
Printed across two sheets of paper.
Text by the artist; artist's monogram lower right.
Gift of the Baldwin M. Baldwin Foundation, 1987:22

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