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LUCIEN METIVET (1863-1932) EUGENIE BUFFET / AMBASSADEURS. 1893. 471/2x31 inches. Charles Verneau, Paris. Condition A: trimmed left margin. Although he studied painting in the Montmartre studio of Fernand Cormon (along with Toulouse-Lautrec) Lucien Metivet became a prolific illustrator, working for the best satirical magazines in Paris, like Le Rire and L'Assiette au Beure. He was a member of the Montmartre circle of artists where he did a lot of work decorating cabarets. Here he depicts the chanteuse Eugenie Buffet in the role she created for herself as an impoverished working-class girl. She is shown walking down a snowy Parisian street, with her hair and dress the only two dark spots in the image. Metivet cleverly puts her name on a poster on the hoarding she is passing, and writes "every night" in the snow behind her steps. This is a classic, French café-concert image. Maitres 22, DFP-II 574, Gold 170.
