Adolphe Léon WILLETTE (1857-1926) studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France. The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated press under the pseudonyms "Cemoi", "Pierrot", "Louison", "Bebe", and "Nox", but more often under his own name. He decorated several "brasseries artistiques" with wall-paintings, stained glasses, notably Le Chat noir and La Palette d'or, and he painted the highly imaginative ceiling for La Cigale music hall. His characteristically fantastic "Parce Domine" was shown in the Franco-British Exhibition in 1908.