Jules Chéret was the first artist to bring bright colors to the poster. His dancing, singing, seemingly weightless figures are mostly anonymous, pretty women dressed in revealing, often sunny yellow dresses. These figures became so identified with his work that they known as chérettes, after Chéret himself. Although the Alcazar d’Hiver was a café-concert on the Champs-Élysées, this poster reveals how fluidly acts associated with the circus could also appear in a variety of venues. The animated puppets represent the classical figures of Harlequin and Pierrot, the original prototypes for early circus clowns.