Signed l.r. Sickert and inscribed with title Gaîté Rouchechouard (sic)

Black and white chalk over pen and ink on brown paper, 20.5 by 28.5 cm

Sickert frequented the Parisian music hall of the same name in the early 1900s. The present work is related to the painting Les Loges (see Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, Yale, 2006, p.335, no.288). That work depicts the audience behind the same conductor, this lively study of one of the pit's violinists and singer suggesting a possible extension to that composition.