Chocolat Dansant Dans Un Bar

Chocolat Dansant Dans Un Bar
Chocolat Dansant Dans Un Bar

Chocolat Dansant Dans Un Bar

Date1896
Original created by (French painter, printmaker, draftsman, 1864–1901)
Illustration CitationPublished in Le Rire, 28 March 1896
MediumLithograph
Dimensionssheet: 12 × 9 3/16 in. (30.5 × 23.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. Joseph Fraczkowski, 1989
Object number1989-73
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextChocolat was the nickname of a black performer who was well-known as a clown at the Nouveau Cirque and an informal dancer on the Paris cafe circuit frequented by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Chocolat's real name was Rafael Padilla. Born enslaved in Cuba, he was sold to a Portuguese man whose ship took him to Europe, where he escaped while in Spain. He worked at various jobs until a fortuitous meeting with a well-known French clown who invited him to Paris. There he became a popular comic performer, though his role was to endure the ridicule and abuse of his white counterpart on stage.

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