A la Bastille (Jeanne Wenz)
1888
Artist, French, 1864 - 1901
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Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 72.5 x 49.5 cm (28 9/16 x 19 1/2 in.)
framed: 96.5 x 73.7 x 7 cm (38 x 29 x 2 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1985.64.39
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Aristide Bruant [1851-1925], Paris. (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 April 1905, no. 3); purchased by Barthélémy. Mme. Casenave;[1] sold to (Wildenstein & Co., London, New York and Paris); sold October 1963 to Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia;[2] gift 1985 to NGA.
[1] Wildenstein's source according to their letter dated 14 December 1998 in NGA curatorial files.
[2] According to Mellon collection records, in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1966
French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 150, repro
1982
Manet and Modern Paris, National Gallery of Art, 1982-1983, no. 26, repro.
1986
Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist, repro.
2002
Three Women: Early Portraits by Toulouse-Lautrec, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 2002, fig. 3.
2008
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2008, fig. 7.
2011
Degas, Lautrec, Zando. Les folies de Montmarte, Scuderie del Castello Visconteo, Pavia, 2011, no. 5, repro.
2012
Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris & the Moulin Rouge, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2012-2013, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
2017
Toulouse-Lautrec: Em Vermelho = In Red, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, 2017, no. 120.
2018
Toulouse-Lautrec y el espiritu de Montmartre [Toulouse-Lautrec and the Spirit of Montmartre], CaixaForum Barcelona; CaixaForum Madrid, 2018-2019, no. 24.
2019
Toulouse-Lautrec: Resolutely Modern, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 2019-2020, no. 57.
Bibliography
1966
Goldwater, Robert. "The Glory that was France." Art News 65 (March 1966): 85.
Kuh, Katherine. "Golden Loans for a Silver Anniversary." Saturday Review (19 March 1966): repro. p. 50.
Young, Mahonri Sharp. "The Mellon Collections: The Great Years of French Painting." Apollo 83 (June 1966): repro. 436.
1971
Dortu, M.G. Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre. 6 vols. New York, 1971:II:P307, repro.
1992
Milner, Frank. Toulouse-Lautrec. Greenwich, Conneticut, 1992: 50, repro.
Inscriptions
upper right: ['88?] / initials in monogram followed by rest of last name: THLautrec
Wikidata ID
Q20189929