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A poster with handwritten text and an illustration of a man in a hat and scarf

Spare lines and boldly colored shapes show a man in a large black hat looking to the left. He wears a serious expression and a large bright red scarf is draped around his neck and over his shoulder. His gloved hand emerges from a blue coat and he holds a wooden staff. The word, “AMBASSADEURS” handwritten in block letters runs the length of the top. Occupying the lower left corner is the handwritten phrase, “aristide BRUANT dans son cabaret”. Behind the man is a yellow wall which opens to a blue space at upper right, in which a silhouetted figure stands.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2014.413
People
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French (Albi 1864 - 1901 Malromé)
Title
Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant in his Cabaret
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print, poster
Date
1892
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/352052

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brush and spatter lithograph, printed in five colors
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
framed: 170.2 x 120.7 cm (67 x 47 1/2 in.)
sight: 142 x 95 cm (55 7/8 x 37 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Lower left edge, in green ink: IMP. FDW. ANCOURT & C.le 83. Fg St. DENIS
  • inscription: Lower left in white ink; signature: T-Lautrec
  • inscription: in stone: AMBASSADEURS / aristide / BRUANT / dans / son cabaret

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private collection, Hawaii, sold; [through Swann Auction Galleries, New York, NY, December 19, 2007, lot 148] to Bob and Ann Walzer, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2014

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Adriani 3

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Rubin-Ladd Foundation
Accession Year
2014
Object Number
2014.413
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The poster consists of two joined sheets of paper.

Publication History

  • Riva Castleman, Toulouse-Lautrec: Posters and Prints from the Collection of Irene and Howard Stein, High Museum of Art (Atlanta, 1998), pp. 32-33 [reference citation]
  • Jane Kinsman, Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris & The Moulin Rouge, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (Canberra, 2012), p. 183-183 [reference citation]
  • Helen Burnham, Mary Weaver Chapin, and Joanna Wendel, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 2019), pp. 56-57, 104, cat. no. 21, repr. p. 56

Exhibition History

  • Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 04/07/2019 - 08/04/2019

Verification Level

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