Steinlen's La Vision de Hugo - Coda

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Images:

1. famous Steinlen Japoniste poster advertising the Chat Noir's tour;

2. bal at Barriere: like a reporter, Steinlen depicts urban life (his style and theme reminds Toulouse-Lautrec and the impressionists);

3. a French soldier on leave with a cane (during WWI Steinlen insisted on his Realist mode; his melodramatic tone - not seen here - was apparently also part of his cause defending).