Belle de la Belle Époque

Yvette Guilbert was a café-concert star in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th century. She was a favorite subject of artist of Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec. Her exaggerated gestures and emotions, along with her wit and eccentricities, all spoke to Lautrec’s art.

Carte-de-visite and poster as seen in the Seattle Asian Art Museum exhibition Renegade Edo and Paris: Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec

I'll let Mlle Guibert speak sing for herself: