# Quadrille of the Louis XIII Chair [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Ink and pencil on paper, 500 x 320 mm ## Commentary In 1885, Rudolphe Salis moved the Chat Noir, a cabaret in which Aristide Bruant himself appeared, to the Rue de Laval. Salis, his artists and customers turned the move into a jolly procession with music and costumes and, while Salis believed he had left nothing behind, he nevertheless forgotten a Louis XIII chair. Bruant, the new proprietor of the premises, refused to relinquish the chair. Instead he hung it on the ceiling and made it the butt of one of his famous satirical songs. Lautrec has captured the movement of the performers, dancing couples and audience in numerous sketches. Lautrec has immortalised himself at the right-hand edge of the picture on the chair. ## Related artworks - [A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette]() - [Admiral Viaud]() - [After the Meal]() - [Alfred la Guigne]() - [Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant]() - [Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant]() - [An Examination at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris]() - [At the Circus: Horse and Monkes Dressage]() - [At the Moulin Rouge: La Goulue and her Sister]() - [At the Moulin Rouge or The Promenade]() - [At the Moulin Rouge]() - [At the Moulin Rouge]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()