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Mlle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs, Degas, 1877
A singer under the gas globes, arm thrown out.
What
Edgar Degas's lithograph Mlle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs, 1877 to 1878; Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 2007.194.
Why
Degas went to the Ambassadeurs for the light: the chandelier, the globes and the night sky over the garden.
Notice
The singer is small and pale in the lower left, under a chandelier and a row of round lamps, and almost everything else is black.
“The same stage Chéret sold, seen by Degas at night.”
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 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
The Lost — mark extinguished- Artist
- Edgar Degas
- Country
- France
- Format
- Other
- Piece published
- Mlle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs, 1877
- Source
- Cleveland Museum of Art · 2007.194
Scan: The Cleveland Museum of Art; CC0 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. Dated 1877–78 by the museum; maker Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917); the Cleveland Open Access record reads CC0. 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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Jules Chéret · 1891
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Jules Chéret · 1888
The Lost — mark extinguishedAlcazar d'Été, Kanjarowa, Chéret, 1891
Jules Chéret · 1891
The Lost — mark extinguishedAlcazar d'Été, Lidia, Chéret, 1895
Jules Chéret · 1895
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