Au Joyeux Moulin Rouge

ALFRED CHOUBRAC (1853-1902) Simply put, Paris is dancing at the "Cheerful" Moulin Rouge, the hotspot that virtually single-handedly created the cancan craze, opening its doors on October 6, 1889. And if you can’t believe a revealing reveler and her well-appointed partner, well then who can you believe. Choubrac was one of the pioneers of French poster art; in 1884, when Maindron published his first article on posters, he listed only nine active posterists known to him, and included the three poster artists whose work made up the first poster exhibition, held that same year in the Passage Vivienne in Paris: Alfred and Leon Choubrac and Jules Cheret.