Who was Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, father of the famous poster for the Black Cat Tour? A century after his death, this genius illustrator, whose name has been largely eclipsed by the feline silhouette of his faithful mistigris, is emerging from the shadows. On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his death, the Montmartre Museum returns to the plural and committed work of this legendary artist, anarchist painter and specialist in cats, close to Toulouse-Lautrec and Émile Zola. Opponent of injustice, Steinlen sketched his contemporaries without judgment or hierarchy and this obvious exhibition intends to go in this direction. Paintings, sculptures, engravings, caricatures, lithographs... The museum here reveals the full extent of the artist's deeply humanist and militant vision. Whether in his allegorical reinterpretation of Liberty Leading the People, in his refusal to eroticize his model Masseïda or in his denunciation of the human disaster of the Great War, the artist will invariably put his pencils to use People. The voice of the oppressed, Steinlen never ceased to assert the political and social demands of his time, as with this street scene highlighting the difficult conditions of beggars, workers and prostitutes, crushed by poverty.