"Yvette Guilbert": A Fin-de-Siècle Collaborative Album

In the winter of 1893, an impassioned socialist journalist and art critic, an infatuated aristocratic artist, and a fine-print publisher united around renowned star of the café-concert, Yvette Guilbert (1865-1944). The meeting of this diverse group, which included Gustave Geffroy (1855-1926), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), and André Marty (1857-?), resulted in an album of lithographs and letterpress text titled after the performer. This lecture, presented by the Assistant Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ashley Dunn, examines the album as a collaborative object created through the individual and overlapping aesthetic and social concerns of all four participants.

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