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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Fashionable People at Les Ambassadeurs (Aux Ambassadeurs: Gens Chic), 1893

Not on View

Medium

oil à l'essence over black chalk on wove paper, mounted on cardboard

Dimensions

overall: 84.3 x 65.5 cm (33 3/16 x 25 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Dortu 1971, no. 477

Accession Number

1995.47.67

Artists / Makers

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (artist) French, 1864 - 1901

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Inscription

lower left in black chalk: TL (in ligature)

Provenance

Depeaux, Rouen, by 1901; (his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot 25 April 1901, no. 63); (Galerie Georges Bernheim, Paris); George Lurcy; (his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, 7 November 1957, no. 46); Keller; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Drouot, Hôtel
Galerie Georges Bernheim
Mellon, Paul
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.

Exhibition History

1914: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Galerie Rosenberg, Paris, 1914, no. 63.

1946: Toulouse-Lautrec. Wildenstein, New York, 1946, no. 20.

1999: An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000.

2000: Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000-2001, 222.

2005: Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and The Art Institute of Chicago, 2005, no. 162, repro.

2011: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, 2011, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1893: Geoffroy, Gustave. "Les Restaurants et les cafés-concerts des Champs-Elysées." Le Figaro Illustré 40 (1893): repr.

1926: Joyant, Maurice. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901. Paris, 1926: 144, 174 (note 2), 278.

1927: Lapparent, Paul de. Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris, 1927: 54.

1934: MacOrlan, Pierre. Lautrec le Peintre. Paris, 1934: 142.

1935: Schaub-Koch, Émile. Psychanalyse d'un peintre moderne Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris, 1935: 202.

1938: Mack, Gerstle. Toulouse-Lautrec. New York, 1938: 192, 357..

1952: Jourdain, Francis. T-Lautrec: Essai sur Toulouse-Lautrec, peintre-graveur, par Jean Adhémar... Paris, 1952: 68, 73 (repr), 111, 123.

1958: Perruchot, Henri. La Vie de Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris, 1958: 333, note 2.

1962: Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris, 1962: 219.

1971: Dortu, M.G. Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre. 6 vols. New York: Collectors Editions, 1971

1979: Stuckey, Charles F. Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago, 1979: 197, fig. 1.

1992: Toulouse-Lautrec. Exh. cat. Haywayd Gallery, London and Grand Palais, Paris, 1992:fig. 255, under no. 52.

2000: A Scottish Collection--Treasures from Aberdeen Art Gallery. Exh. cat. Nagasaki Prefectural Museum and Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, 2000: fig. 17, under no. 55.

2010: Jones, Kimberly A. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010.