Musée d’Orsay this week opens ‘Splendours and Miseries’,the first major exhibition looking at the artistic representation of prostitution in 19th century ParisWhen the sun went down in 19th-century Paris and lamp-lighters lit the gas lamps, it was time for “absinthe hour”. The elegant daytime flâneurs strolling Haussmann’s grand boulevards had disappeared and were replaced by the ladies of the night.
From the darkest corners of the French capital, or thousands of brightly dressed and giddy moths emerged to flirt and solicit clients on the cafe terraces and in cabarets such as the Folies Bergère and Moulin Rouge.
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Source: theguardian.com