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Libert à la Scala

Henri-Gabriel IBELS

Libert à la Scala

Circa 1893
Pastel and charcoal on bis paper
408 × 288 mm
Signed in black pastel lower right H G Ibels

This drawing of the singer Libert was used for the lithograph by Ibels published in the album Le Café-Concert, with a preface written by Georges Montorgueil (pseudonym of Octave Lebesgue, journalist, man of letters, author of comedies, studies of Parisian mores, historical works and biographies), which included lithographs by Ibels and Toulouse-Lautrec (Paris, L’Estampe Originale, 1893).

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