Montmartre singer and songwriter whose streetwise chansons helped define the cabaret's sound.
Sat for a portrait by · 1892
The 1892 Ambassadeurs poster - black hat, black cape, red scarf - and three more Bruant posters after it made the singer's silhouette one of the most recognized images in Paris. Lautrec drank and drew at Bruant's cabaret Le Mirliton.
Performed at
Bruant's songs belonged to the distinctively Parisian chanson culture that developed around Le Chat Noir.
Sat for a portrait by · 1892
The 1892 Ambassadeurs poster - black hat, black cape, red scarf - and three more Bruant posters after it made the singer's silhouette one of the most recognized images in Paris. Lautrec drank and drew at Bruant's cabaret Le Mirliton.
