May Belfort (Irish Singer)

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator. The period he created his art was known as the Belle Époque and his focus was on the decadence in Parisian society. Toulouse-Lautrec’s poster of naughty lady-loving Irishwoman Miss May Belfort, originally Mary Egan from Mayo, Ireland: vaudeville singer, child impersonator, and briefly, the star of Parisian cafe society. May’s “slightly disturbing and thinly-veiled erotic” act was performed wearing the dress of a little girl with large puffed sleeves and an enormous bonnet.

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Size: 2200px × 3200px
Location: France
Photo credit: © Toulouse - Lautrec / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: advertising, affiche, belle, epoch, france, french, gaul, gaulist, irish, journal, jpp, paris, plakat, woman, Époque