Divan Japonais thumbnail 1
Not on display

Divan Japonais

Poster
1892 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Edw. Ancourt (printers (people))
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec (artist)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

This poster advertises the café-concert Divan Japonais in Paris. Using flat areas of colour, outline and sinuous silhouette, the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) depicts the dancer Jane Avril and the critic Edouard Dujardin in the foreground, with the singer Yvette Guilbert on stage. With its 'oriental'-style decoration, the Divan Japonais was one of the many Paris haunts of Toulouse-Lautrec.

Object details

Categories
Entertainment & Leisure
Prints
Advertising
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleDivan Japonais (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Paper
Lithographic Ink
Colour Lithograph
Planographic Printing
Brief description
Poster, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 'Divan Japonais', French; 1892.
Physical description
Depicts the interior of a café-concert. A singer is partially obscured in the top left-hand corner. An auburn-haired woman in a black dress sits in the foreground. A man stands behind her wearing a top hat and carrying a cane. An orchestra is partially visible.
Dimensions
  • Height: 813mm
  • Width: 619mm
Styles
Post-Impressionist
Art Nouveau
Gallery label
Poster: Divan Japonais
1892
Shown at a poster exhibition, Reims, 1896

The Divan Japonais café in Paris was one of Toulouse-Lautrec's many haunts. Here, he shows the dancer Jane Avril and the critic Edouard Gujardin in the foreground, with the singer Yvette Guilbert on stage. The influence of Japanese woodblock prints can be seen in the combination of word and image, the blocks of colour and the stylised outlines.

France, Paris; designed by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; printed by Edward Ancourt
Colour Lithograph on paper

Museum no. Circ.272-1964
Subjects depicted
Entertainment
Avril, Jane
Guilbert, Yvette
Dujardin, Edouard
Summary
This poster advertises the café-concert Divan Japonais in Paris. Using flat areas of colour, outline and sinuous silhouette, the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) depicts the dancer Jane Avril and the critic Edouard Dujardin in the foreground, with the singer Yvette Guilbert on stage. With its 'oriental'-style decoration, the Divan Japonais was one of the many Paris haunts of Toulouse-Lautrec.
Associated object
E.233-1921 (Duplicate)
Bibliographic references
  • Greenhalgh, Paul Ed., Art Nouveau : 1890 - 1914. London: V&A Publications, 2000. 464 p., 9.3pl, ill. ISBN 1851772774
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1964
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.272-1964

About this object record

Explore the Collections contains over a million catalogue records, and over half a million images. It is a working database that includes information compiled over the life of the museum. Some of our records may contain offensive and discriminatory language, or reflect outdated ideas, practice and analysis. We are committed to addressing these issues, and to review and update our records accordingly.

You can write to us to suggest improvements to the record.

Suggest feedback

Record createdFebruary 18, 2003
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O74624/divan-japonais-poster-henri-de-toulouse/
Download as: JSONIIIF Manifest