A la Bastille (Jeanne Wenz)

1888

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Artist, French, 1864 - 1901

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • 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


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