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La Troupe de Mademoiselle Eglantine (1895) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath

The jostling legs, the frocks and the headdresses of the cancan dancers of the Moulin Rouge capture a moment in 1890s Paris, summoning something of the thrills and delights of Bohemian Montmatre. This is Toulouse-Lautrec’s first poster for the club – one that would go on to become world famous.

His full set of posters are now on display in ‘Toulouse-Lautrec and the Masters of Montmartre’, set alongside Steinlein’s Chat Noir, an advert for Ruinart champagne by Alphonse Mucha and theatre posters by Jules Cheret – the masters of Belle Époque Paris.