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Shown from the lap up, a man wearing an ash-brown suit and top hat sits turned mostly away from us, next to a round table, facing a group of at least three women farther back in the room in this vertical painting. The scene is loosely painted with visible, mostly vertical strokes, and most of the forms, clothing, and objects are outlined in cobalt blue. Sitting in a wooden, ladderback chair, the man’s body takes up the bottom right quadrant of the painting. His skin is painted pale turquoise. His face turns away from us so we see the tip of his nose and the lines of his cheek and double chin. He has short brown hair under his top hat. He holds a silver-topped cane in one hand, which rests in his lap. A glass with some clear liquid sits on the table in front of him, to our left. A peanut-brown column spans the height of the painting just beyond him, near the right edge of the composition. Three women stand closely together in the near distance, in the upper left corner of the painting. At the front of the trio, a woman with a peach-colored face wears an indigo-blue mask over her eyes. A few swipes of paint indicate blond hair, possibly pulled up. She faces our right in profile and stands with her right hand, closer to us, planted on her hip. She wears a bubblegum-pink sleeveless top and form-fitting pants. The skin of her arm and the skin on the face of the woman standing just beyond her is a cream-white tinged with blue. That second woman faces our right in profile, and her blond hair is either short or also pulled up. A teal-green strap of a low-cut dress crosses over the shoulder we can see. A third woman stands in front of this pair, between them and the seated man. She faces away from us and wears a cotton candy-pink robe and hood that completely covers her body. The wall at the back of the room is painted with areas of brick red, moss green, and a grayish mauve pink.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Maxime Dethomas, 1896

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 80

Medium

oil on cardboard

Dimensions

overall: 67.5 x 50.9 cm (26 9/16 x 20 1/16 in.)

framed: 99.1 x 87 cm (39 x 34 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection

Accession Number

1963.10.219

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right: HTLautrec / 96 (HTL in ligature)

Provenance

Charles Pacquement, Paris. (Paul Cassirer, Berlin); sold 1929 to (Alex Reid & Lefèvre, London); sold 5 April 1932 to (Etienne Bignou, Paris);[1] sold November 1931 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.

[1] Reid & Lefèvre Paintings Sold, sheet no. 296, #238/29 gives acquisition source and sale information (Lefèvre archives, Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, London, TGA 2002/11, Box 283). The discrepancy between the sale date to Bignou and that to Dale is probably due to Reid & Lefèvre's final accounting of the sale of the picture.

Associated Names

Bignou, Etienne
Dale, Chester
Galerie Paul Cassirer
Pacquement, Charles
Reid & Lefèvre, Ltd, Alex

Exhibition History

1914: Exposition Rétrospective de l'Oeuvre de H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, 1914, no. 13.

1930: Masterpieces by Nineteenth Century French Painters, Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1930, no. 12.

1930: Renoir and the Post-Impressionists, Alex. Reid & Lefevre, London, 1930, no. 20.

1931: Exposition H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, 1931, no. 153.

1931: Lautrec - Redon, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1931, no. 30.

1931: Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Prints, and Posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1931, no. 31.

1934: Exhibition of Important Paintings by Great French Masters of the Nineteenth Century, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 1934, no. 29, repro.

1965: The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

1994: Toulouse-Lautrec: Marcelle Lender in "Chilpéric", National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995, not in brochure.

2010: From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 2010-January 2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1913: Coquiot, Gustave. H. de Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris, 1913:99, repro.

1914: Geffroy, Gustave. "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec." Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 4, vol. 12 (1914):99, repro.

1920: Duret, Théodore. Lautrec. Paris, 1920:41-42

1921: Coquiot, Gustave. Lautrec, ou, quinze ans de moeurs parisiennes. Paris, 1921:122-123, 210.

1926: Joyant, Maurice. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris, 1926:I:200, repro.

1930: Furst, Herbert. "Renoir and the Post-Impressionists." Apollo 12 (July - December 1930):70-71, repro.

1930: "Gallery Notes." Parnassus II, no. 7 (November 1930):16, repro.

1930: Goodrich, Lloyd. "In the Galleries." The Arts 17, no. 1 (October 1930):repro.

1934: Orlan, Pierre Mac. Lautrec: peintre de la lumière froide. Paris, 1934:130, repro.

1935: Wilenski, R.H. Vanity Fair's Portfolio of Modern French Art. New York, 1935: no. 13, repro.

1938: Astre, Achille. H. de Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris, 1938:82

1938: Mack, Gerstle. Lautrec. New York, 1938:269-270

1939: Craven, Thomas, ed. A Treasury of Art Masterpieces. New York, 1939:517-518, repro. (Rev. ed., 1952:280, repro.)

1939: Lassaigne, Jacques. Toulouse Lautrec. Translated by Mary Chamot. London and New York, 1939: plate 112

1939: Slocombe, George. Rebels of Art, Manet to Matisse. New York, 1939:plate 24

1942: French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 81, repro.

1944: French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 81, repro.

1944: Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and their Contemporaries Represented in American Collections. New York, 1944: repro. 176.

1952: Cooper, Douglas. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. New York, 1952:18, repro. (Rev. ed. 1956:130, repro.)

1952: Dortu, M.G. Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris, 1952:repro. 42

1952: Jourdain, Francis and Jean Adhémar. T.-Lautrec. Paris, 1952:no. 104, repro.

1953: French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 89, repro.

1953: Lassaigne, Jacques, Lautrec. Geneva, 1953:91, repro.

1960: Fiala, Vlastimil. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Prague, 1960:40, repro.

1961: Hoffmann, Werner. The Earthly Paradise: Art in the Nineteenth Century. New York, 1961:4 , repro.

1963: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 327, repro.

1965: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 135, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 131.

1966: Chastel, André. Toulouse-Lautrec. New York, 1966:plate 22

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 118, repro.

1969: Caproni, Giorgio and G.M. Sugana. L'opera completa di Toulouse-Lautrec. Milan, 1969:no. 452, repro.

1971: Dortu, M.G. Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre. Paris, 1971:III:P628, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 350, repro.

1979: Stuckey, Charles F. Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings. Chicago, 1979:305, repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 529, no. 794, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 401, repro.

1991: Julien, Edouard. Lautrec. New York, 1991:repro.

1991: Stevenson, Lesley. H. de Toulouse-Lautrec. London, New York, 1991:147, repro.

1993: Néret, Gilles. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901. 1993:94, repro.

1995: Halpine, Susana M. "An Investigation of Artists' Materials Using Amino Acid Analysis: Introduction of the One-Hour Extraction Method." Studies in the History of Art 51 (1995): 42, 58-61, repro. no. 19.

2011: Kraus, Rosalind. Under Blue Cup. Cambridge, Mass., 2011: fig. 1.5.