Additional information
| Artist | Lautrec |
|---|---|
| Country | French |
| Region | European |
ArtistToulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
Artist Years1864-1901
Artist NationalityFrench
TitleMademoiselle Marcelle Lender, En Buste
Year1895
MediumPrint > Lithograph
DimensionsComposition: 12.6 X 9.5 inches
Sheet: 14.6 X 11.1 inches
Catalog ReferenceDelteil 102 ii/iii; Adhemar 131; Wittrock 99 iv/iv; Adriani 115 iv/iv
Description
Original lithograph printed in eight colors on wove paper, signed on the stone with the artist’s monogram device upper left. Wittrock and Adriani’s fourth and final state, Delteil’s second state of three. From the edition of 1,211 published in the standard edition of German art review Pan, Volume I, No. 3, Berlin, 1895. With the letterpress text in the lower left reading: “ORIGINALLITHOGRAPHIE IN ACHT FARBEN VON H. DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. PAN 1-3.” Published by Edouard Ancourt.
Accession NumberRC1406
NotesLautrec is said to have gone twenty times to see the singer and dancer Marcelle Lender in an 1895 revival of the Hervé operetta Chilpéric. When his friend Romain Coolus, who could stand to accompany him only six of those times, asked what the attraction was, he replied, “I only come to see Lender’s back. Look carefully, you will rarely see anything as splendid.” However, only one of the twelve lithographs that resulted from this burst of theater-going depicts Lender from behind.
(source: MoMA)