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Portrait of a woman done in red chalk

A woman fixes a confident gaze, looking forward directly at the viewer. Lit from the left side, at right the side of her face is in shadow, with darker and lighter tones built up by layered lines and shading. Her hair is styled up on her head and she wears a lace choker on her neck, above the faintly visible low neckline of her dress. Cross hatched marks indicate space in the background.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.920
People
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French (Albi 1864 - 1901 Malromé)
Title
Portrait of Jeanne Granier
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1897
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297764

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on blue modern laid paper
Dimensions
47.8 x 32.6 cm (18 13/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Maurice Joyant; Jacques Seligmann and Co., acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, May 1935 ($3,000, as a portrait of Jane Avril); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.920
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States, J. J. Augustin, Inc. (New York, 1947), no. 147
  • Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, ed. Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 837, n.p., repr.
  • M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre (New York, NY, 1971), vol. 6, pp. 780-81, no. D.4.374, repr.
  • Mrs. Colles Baxter Larkin, "Mistaken Identities: Three Portraits by Toulouse-Lautrec", Print Collector's Newsletter (May-June 1979), 10, no. 2, pp. 41-44
  • Debora Mayer, "Technical Examination of Red Chalk" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1982), Unpublished, pp. 1-33 passim
  • Dominique Jarrassé, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa: entre le mythe et la modernité, AGEP (Marseille, France, 1991), color repr. fig. 70
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 131, repr. (color)
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 131, repr.

Exhibition History

  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) 19th Century French Portrait Drawings, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/07/2009 - 08/30/2009
  • 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/07/2024 - 06/10/2024

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