Rosmersholm; Le Gage

1897

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Associated Names
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Artist, French, 1864 - 1901

The image is a sketch-style monochrome poster featuring three people. The two seated people are shown from the waist up. One is leaning slightly backward, depicted with a rough outline of their face lacking detail, wearing a detailed jacket with a checkered vest underneath and holding a monocle near their face. The other seated person is a woman with visible facial features; she has an elaborate updo hairstyle, wearing a high-collared, ruffled dress with polka dots. The third person is standing on the left, shown in a side profile from head to knee, with facial features including a mustache and short, slicked hair. He wears a suit with a bow tie and holds an object with a visible partial word in his left hand. Behind the characters, the background is filled with sketch-like lines and minimal forms, featuring a decorative item that resembles a sculpture or model of a horse and rider on a pedestal. The poster includes text in French detailing information about plays, performances, and a theater event for the 1897-1898 season at the Salle du Nouveau-Théâtre in Paris.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Atlas Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 38.6 x 28 cm (15 3/16 x 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1995.76.87

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wittrock 1985, no. 237, State only (Theatre Programme ed.)


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rodolphe Darzens, Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Atlas, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1998

  • Artists and the Avant-Garde Theater in Paris, 1887-1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Academy Museum, New York, 1998-1999, no. 64, as Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen; Le Gage (The Wager) by Frantz Jourdain.

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.

1954

  • Adhemar, Jean. Honore Daumier. Paris: Editions Pierre Tisne, 1954.

1985

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

1992

  • Aitken, Geneviève. Artistes et Théâtres d'Avant-Garde: Programmes de Théâtre Illustrés, Paris 1890-1900. Exh. cat. Pont-Aven, Musée de Pont-Aven and tour, 1992, 85, no. 96.

1998

  • Artists and the Avant-Garde Theater in Paris, 1887-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Academy Museum, New York, 1998-1999: no. 64.

Inscriptions

lower center in stonein ligature: T-L; upper left printed: L'OEUVRE / 22-RUE TURGOT-22; upper right printed: Saison 1897-1898 / 3e SPECTACLE / Salle du Nouveau-Théâtre; lower left printed: ROSMERSHOLM / Quatre actes d'Henrik IBSEN / Traduction du COMTE PROZOR; lower right printed: LE GAGE / Comédie en un acte de M. FRANTZ-JOURDAIN; lower center printed: PARIS.-- GRAND IMPRIMERIE CENTRALE, 10, FG MONTMARTRE.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Lautrec

Wikidata ID

Q75395768

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