The main attraction in Chilpéric was the bolero, danced by Marcelle Lender (née Anne-Marie Bastion) as Galaswintha at the court of King Chilpéric. It was not, of course, the flimsy plot of this medieval farce but the actress herself who led Lautrec to sit through the operetta nearly twenty times. Lender played an extremely important part in Lautrec's graphic art of this period. He would always sketch from the same angle as he sat watching the operetta from one of the first tiers on the left. Two such studies, executed in pencil, are preserved in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (Dortu D. 3.897).