Willette Adolphe Watercolor Naughty Subject In Montmartre

Willette Adolphe (1857-1926) rare watercolor naughty subject in Montmartre, The Moulin de la Galette in the background, the Sacré-Cœur church on the right. Beautiful carved wooden frame dimensions with frame 42.5 cm x 38 cm. view 23x 17 cm. "It was Abadie who made the Sacré Cœur, but it was God who made that..." announces this pretty young woman, partially naked, presenting her buttocks to the penitent monk attacking the climb of the steps leading to the Sacré Cœur. The Moulin de la Galette, a festive hotspot on rue Lepic in Montmartre, frequented by famous people, such as the artists Renoir, Van Dongen, Picasso, Signac, Toulouse-Lautrec, but also by singers and dancers like La Goulue, will become a guinguette and a famous ball. In the foreground, a black cat reminds us of the sign of this famous cabaret co-founded by Adolphe Willette. Adolphe Willette, born in 1857 in Chalons-en-Champagne and died in Paris in 1926, was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, who exhibited at the Salon from 1881. He moved to Montmartre in 1882 and participated in the creation of the cabaret Le Chat Noir, which he decorated with panels of his own composition. There, he met Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Signac, Camille Pissarro, Van Gogh, and Georges Seurat. He founded his own magazine "Le Pierrot", decorated the Moulin Rouge, collaborated on numerous illustrated publications including "l'Assiette au Beure", "Le Pied de Nez" with Steinlen, "Le Courrier Français", "Le Chat Noir", "le Triboulet"... Guillaume Apollinaire was one of his fervent admirers. Always in excess, Willette founded the République de Montmartre with his artist friends Jean-Louis Forain, Raoul Guerin and Poulbot, of which he was elected president.