Divan Japonais  1893

Poster for the cabaret Divan Japonais, published version. Text (verbatim transcription of lettering): “Divan Japonais / 75 rue des Martyrs / Ed Fournier / Directeur” (lettering by the artist). [br] Nineteenth-century guidebooks described Paris as “the capital of pleasure,” with its thousands of theaters, dance halls, cafés, circuses, racetracks, and other entertainments. ...