French genre painter René Deydier was from Avignon but lived and worked for most of his life in Paris, where he painted the existence of the workers in the working-class neighbourhoods. For example, many of his paintings from the 1920s show the interior of the 'Bal Musette', a working-class cafe near Place de la Bastille. These cafe scenes, often with a jazz band in the background, were very popular in the 1920s. Between 1924 and 1937, Deydier regularly exhibited his realistic work at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris.