Aristide Bruant, at His Cabaret, 1893, Lithograph (with text) printed in four colors; machine wove paper, Sheet: 54 5/16 x 39 in. (138 x 99 cm), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, Albi 1864?1901 Saint-Andre-du-Bois), Aristide Bruant was a successful singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur who ran a cabaret in the Montmartre quarter of Paris. When he began performing at up-scale cafe-concerts on the Champs-?lysees, he immediately commissioned Toulouse-Lautrec to market his rough street persona in a manner that would appeal to a bourgeois audience