One of the most critically renowned paintings of the 19th-century modernist movement is the French painter Edouard Manet's masterwork ,A Bar at the Folies. Originally belonging to the composer Emmanuel Chabrier ,it is now in the possession of The Courtauld Gallery in London, where it has also become a favourite with the crowds. The paintings is set late at night in a 19th-century Parisian nightclub. A barmaid stands alone behind her bar, fitted pit in a black bodice that has a frilly white neckline, and with a spray of flowers sitting across her decolletage. She rests her hand the bar and gazes out forlornly at a point just below the viewer, not quite making eye contact. Also on the bar are some bottles of liquor and a bowl of oranges, but much of the activity in the room takes place in the reflection of a mirror behind the barmaid.. Through this mirror we see an auditorium , bustling with blurred figures and faces men in top hats, a woman examining the scene below her through binoculars. another in long gloves even the feet of a trapeze artist demonstrating acrobatic feats above his adoring crowd. In the foreground of the reflection a man with a thick moustache is talking with the barmaid.