Divan Japonais
Depiction by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Divan Japonais is a lithograph poster by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It was created to advertise a café-chantant that was at the time known as Divan Japonais. The poster depicts three persons from the Montmartre of Toulouse-Lautrec's... Wikipedia
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The Divan Japonais, a cabaret in Montmartre, an artists' quarter in Paris, was newly redecorated in 1893 with fashionable Japanese motifs and lanterns.
Between 1891 and 1900, Toulouse-Lautrec produced 30 color lithograph posters, his most recognized work for their evocation of the era in which he lived.
Nineteenth-century guidebooks described Paris as “the capital of pleasure,” with its thousands of theaters, dance halls, cafés, circuses, racetracks, ...