THE LOST BAR

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← The Café-Concert

Divan Japonais, Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Jane Avril in black, watching the stage.

What

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's poster for the Divan Japonais, 75 rue des Martyrs, lithograph printed in four colours, 1892 to 1893; 80.8 by 60.8 cm; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 58.621.17.

Why

The Divan Japonais was a café-concert run by Édouard Fournier, named in the lower left as directeur.

Notice

The woman in the black dress and hat is the dancer Jane Avril, the man beside her holds a cane, and the singer on the stage is cut off at the neck by the top edge.

“One of the posters that taught the century to crop.”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 11x17" cleanly.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished
Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Country
France
Format
Poster (affiche)
Piece published
Divan Japonais, 1893
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 58.621.17
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Scan: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; public domain, Open Access.

Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (piece published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the piece’s own publication year, never a brand’s founding year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Lithograph of 1892 to 1893 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (died 1901); the Met Open Access record reads isPublicDomain true. Served from the house's own store, cropped.

This brand was no longer in the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.

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