ID: 700089767 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700089767	Record Type: Movable Work

Chat Noir (poster; designed by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-192...; 1896;)

Note: This poster advertises the reopening of the Chat Noir, which opened in 1881 as the first cabaret in Paris, known for irreverent performances of songs, plays, readings, and shadow theater.

Titles:

Chat Noir (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U,English-P,L,U)

La Compagnie du Chat Noir (C,U,French,U,U)

Poster of a Black Cat, for the Reopening of the Chat Noir Cabaret (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

poster [300027221] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by function>, <declaratory and advertising artifacts>)

lithograph [300041379]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, planographic prints)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

European art

Creation Date: 1896

Creator Display:

designed by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923) [preferred,VP]

printmaker Steinlen, Théophile Alexandre (French illustrator, printmaker, and painter, 1859-1923) [500017451]

Locations:

Creation: Montmartre [7013286] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara county, California, United States) [500308692] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1991.17

Display Materials: Poster, color lithograph printed in black and red

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

	lithography [300053271]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, planographic printing processes)

Dimensions: 61.6 x 39.62 cm (24 1/4 x 15 5/8 inches)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	fin de siècle [300111540] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>)

General Subject:

advertising and commercial (preferred)

animals

Specific Subjects:

	Chat Noir (French cabaret, active 19th century) [500312924]
	.....(Corporate Bodies) (ULAN)

	Salis, Rodolphe (French painter and caricaturist, 1851-1897) [500312923]
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	Felis domesticus (species) [300265960]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Carnivora (order), Felidae (family), Felis (genus)) (AAT)

Provenance: International Poster Gallery, MA; Purchased by MFA, March 20, 2002

Inscriptions: signed in plate, lower left: Th. Stienlen; upper right: EXPOSITIONS / PARTICULIÈRE / LE DIMANCHE 15 MAI / PUBLIQUE / les 16.17.18 et / 20 MAI 1898 / AVANT LA VENTE / de 1 h. 1/2 à 2 h. 1/2; right side: VENTE / HÔTEL / DROUOT / Salle No. 1 / Les Lundi 16, Mardi 17 / Mercredi 18 & Venredi 20 MAI 1898 / À 2 HEURES 1/2 / COLLECTION / DU / CHAT NOIR / "Rodolphe SALIS" / DESSINS ORIGINAUX / Aquarelles Tableaux / Importante Composition / "PARCE DOMINE" / Par A. WILLETTE; in losenge below: Par le Ministère de / Me. J. GUILLET Commissaire-Priseur / 34 RUE BAUDIN / Assiste de / Mr. F. CUÉREL Peintre Expert / 10. Rue Eug#02ene-Sue / chez lesquels on distribue le Catalogue; vertically in right margin: Imp CHARLIE VERNEAU. 114 Rue Oberkampf.Paris.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Chat Noir	........ [VP]
	........ Santa Barbara Museum of Art [online] (2010)
La Compagnie du Chat Noir	........ [VP]
	........ Santa Barbara Museum of Art [online] (2010)
Poster of a Black Cat, for the Reopening of the Chat Noir Cabaret	........ [VP]
	........ CDWA online (1995-) accessed 18 October 2010

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Santa Barbara Museum of Art [online] (2010)