Moulin Rouge: La Goulue for the elasticity of its young dancers, both physically and morally; police officers made periodic checks to ensure that they were all wearing underwear. However, the poster by Jules Chéret advertising the club's delights, was relatively subdued, so the director Charles Zidler hired the young (only 27 years old) Toulouse-Lautrec to create a more vibrant poster. Although "Moulin Rouge: La Goulue" was Toulouse-Lautrec's first attempt at lithography, such was his grasp of the medium's possibilities that it was an immediate sensation. 3000 copies spread around Paris captivated the public with their eye-catching design, bold colors, and innovative, Japanese-inspired use of
The Storm (painting) to the novel "Paul et Virginie", first published by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre in 1788, and others to the fourth century romance "Daphnis and Chloe" by the Hellenistic writer Longus. Evidence for the first interpretation comes from the specific motif of the couple running from the rain and covered by a billowing drapery corresponding to a famous and often illustrated scene in "Paul et Virginie": The Storm (painting) The Storm (La Tempête) is a painting by French artist Pierre Auguste Cot, completed in 1880. Currently, on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was commissioned from the artist in