Le Fardeau de la liberté

1897

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Artist, French, 1864 - 1901

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 1 lithograph in black, gray and yellow

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Martin and Liane W. Atlas

  • Dimensions

    sheet (program closed): 20 x 15.5 cm (7 7/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
    sheet (program opened): 20 x 31.1 cm (7 7/8 x 12 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.87.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wittrock 1985, no. 233, State (book cover ed. 1897)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gift of the author to Adolphe Adere, Paris; PAW (ownership stamp); RB (ownership stamp); Mr. and Mrs. Martin Atlas, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1906

  • Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

1985

  • Wittrock, Wolfgang, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Prints, 2 vols. London and New York, 1985.

Inscriptions

lower left in stone: T-L; across top printed: Tristan Bernard / Le Fardeau de la Liberté / Comédie en Un Acte en Prose; lower left printed: PARIS / Editions de la "Revue Blanche" / 1, Rue Laffitte, 1 / 1897 / Pr:1f.50; on front free endpaper, upper right in pen and black ink: A Adolphe Adere / bien sympathiquement / Tristan Bernard

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