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Adolphe Léon Willette (1857-1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer. He contributed to several journals with somewhat questionable political views. However, he is mainly known as the architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret.

 

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Poster for Paris newspaper L'Intransigeant, designed by Cassandre, 1925.

Toulouse Lautrec Impressionist Painting Young Girl & Eros - Adolphe c.1882

Attributed to Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) After William Bouguereau

 

Approx: Size 47" tall x 35.25" wide (without the frame) - 62.75" tall x 51" wide (with Frame)

 

History

 

William Bouguereau was France's most popular painter of the late 1800s. A leader of the Academic School,

 

Bouguereau specialized in carefully detailed mythological and genre scenes, and was particularly noted for his tender

 

portrayals of children. "The Abduction of Psyche" (1895) is probably his best-known work. Today many critics dismiss

 

his style as kitsch and do not look kindly on his harmful opposition to new creative trends; but his exquisite craftsmanship

 

is undeniable. Bouguereau completed over 800 paintings, many of them life-sized. Adolphe William Bouguereau (he

 

never used his first name) was born in La Rochelle, France. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and won the Prix de

 

Rome in 1850. In 1868 he built a lavish studio in Montparnasse and helped make that area the foremost artists' quarter

 

in Paris. Around this time he also began a liason with one of his students, American painter Elizabeth Gardner;

 

Bouguereau's mother opposed the relationship and the couple did not marry until her death in 1896. As comparatively

 

obscure as he is these days, it's difficult to imagine what a star Bouguereau was in the art world of his era. He worked

 

hard to fufil his many commissions and his paintings were so sought after, and fetched such high prices, that he once

 

boasted, "I lose five francs every time I pee". Engraved reproductions of his works sold in the millions. Along with wealth

 

and fame came many honors, including election to the Institute of France and being named a Grand Officer of the Legion

 

of Honor. Reactionary in visual tastes, Bouguereau believed art should idealize beauty and turned up his nose at

 

anything that even remotely deviated from this dictum. As President of the Society of French Artists from 1881, he

 

oversaw the selection of the thousands of paintings shown annually at the Paris Salon, the only real avenue to success

 

for aspiring Gallic painters and sculptors. For decades he used this position to hinder the press and public from

 

discovering the revolutionary changes that were taking place in French painting, including Impressionism, Realism,

 

Pointillism, and the singular efforts of Paul Gaugin, Henri Rousseau, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Paul Cezanne, who

 

submitted canvases to that venue every year only to have them rejected, finally gave up and declared, "I don't stand a

 

chance in Monsieur Bouguereau's Salon". Rival salons sprang up in Paris to combat Bouguereau's conservatism, but he

 

remained powerful and influential until his death at 79. (bio by: Bobb Edwards)

 

In 1882, Lautrec moved from Albi to Paris, where he studied art in the ateliers of two academic painters, Léon Bonnat

 

(1833–1922) and Fernand Cormon (1845–1924), who also taught Émile Bernard (1868–1941) and Vincent van Gogh

 

(1853–1890). Lautrec soon began painting en plein air in the manner of the Impressionists, and often posed sitters in the

 

Montmartre garden of his neighbor, Père Forest, a retired photographer. One of his favorite models was a prostitute

 

nicknamed La Casque d'Or (Golden Helmet), seen in the painting The Streetwalker (2003.20.13). Lautrec used peinture

 

à l'essence, or oil thinned with turpentine, on cardboard, rendering visible his loose, sketchy brushwork. The

 

transposition of this creature of the night to the bright light of day—her pallid complexion and artificial hair color clash with

 

the naturalistic setting—signals Lautrec's fascination with sordid and dissolute subjects. Later in his career, he would

 

devote an entire series of prints, called Elles, to life inside a brothel (1984.1203.166).

 

The most notable painting from the Harris collection was the early Toulouse-Lautrec painting "La blanchisseuse" (1886-

 

87), a young laundress with copper-colored hair and a pearly white blouse. Its optimistic presale estimate of $20 million

 

to $25 million turned out to be justified, as the painting sold for $22.4 million to a phone bidder. The price was a record

 

for a work by the artist sold at auction, $6 million more than the previous highest price.

 

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) was a French artist of the late 19th Century, most closely associated with the

 

Symbolists, but with a unique, distinctive style of his own. His depictions of Parisian night life and society -- vivid, candid,

 

energetic and unflattering -- are instantly recognizable, and typify that place and period in the minds of many. The

 

painter's own life has become a legend that has inspired many romanticized interpretations.

Henri-Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa was born on November 24, 1864, in the town of Albi, in the south of

 

France. He was the first child and heir of Alphonse Charlers Jean Marie (1838-1913), Count of Toulouse, and his wife

 

Marie Marquette Zoe Adele Tapie de Celeyran (1841-1930). Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec was an avid

 

sportsman and hunter, with a penchant for flamboyant outfits. Marie de Celeyran, by contrast, was very reserved and shy,

 

and doted on her first child. Young Henri was probably first introduced to painting through his uncles, several of whom

 

were amateur artists. He received his first tutelage in art from Rene Princeteau, a well-known sports-painter and a friend

 

of his father's.

Much of Henri's early childhood was spent in the Chateau de Celeyran, his mother's familial home, near the

 

Mediterranean town of Narbonne, where he spent much time drawing and painting the life and landscape of the estate. In

 

1868, his parents separated; Henri would live mostly with his mother. In 1872, he was enrolled in the prestigious Lycee

 

Fontanes in Paris, but he left the school only three short years later, in 1875, due to health reasons. Together with his

 

mother, he moved back to the south of France, and its gentler climate.

In 1878, Henri broke his left thigh as he was getting up out of a chair. Bed-ridden, he spent his time reading, drawing and

 

painting. A year later and just barely recovered from his first injury, he broke his other thigh whilst taking a walk with his

 

mother. The growth of his legs was stunted forever, and he never grew taller than 5 feet. There is much speculation about

 

the causes of the painter's medical condition. From the evidence we have today, it is probable that he suffered from

 

brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta), a genetic disorder that prevents bones and connective tissues from

 

developing properly. Osteogenesis imperfecta was not uncommon among the European aristocracy, and this would

 

explain Henri's physical frailty and other symptoms. Be that as it may, his illness was never identified during his lifetime,

 

and nothing his mother and his doctors undertook would help.

Meanwhile, Henri continued to pursue art. By 1880, he had produced as many as two and a half thousand works, in a

 

variety of techniques. Encouraged by his uncle Charles and by Princeteau, he eventually managed to convince his

 

mother to allow him to return to Paris to study art. In 1881, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec set up residence in Princeteau's

 

Paris studio.

In 1882, the young artist was accepted into the studio of the famous painter and art teacher Leon Bonnat. However,

 

Bonnat took an immediate dislike to Toulouse-Lautrec, who, already then, had something of a caustic personality. The

 

two did not get along well, and after Bonnat became a professor at the Paris Academy of Art, Lautrec quit his studio and

 

began to study, instead, under Fernand Cormon. Cormon was a talented artist in his own right, and an enthusiastic

 

teacher, and his workshop attracted many young painters who would later be among the shapers of the art world.

  

Under Cormon, Toulouse-Lautrec explored many styles and techniques. He received a firm grounding in academic

 

painting, but Cormon also encouraged his students to explore Impressionism and contemporary directions in art. Two of

 

the painter's works from this period are the Artist's Mother (1883) and the Young Routy at Celeyran (1883).

In 1883, Lautrec had his first romantic liaison with Marie Charlet, a 17-year-old model. The painter would have many

 

affairs over the course of his rather brief life. All of them would be with women far below his station, and none of them

 

were very long-lasting. Although the artist immersed himself in the life of the lower classes -- the cabarets, the dance

 

halls and the brothels -- he always retained an aristocratic aloofness and a sense of his own superiority. He was not

 

attempting to become part of that life: he was rather an unprejudiced observer; a doctor or a scientist, trying to dissect it

 

and give it life, in his art.

Lautrec moved into the Montmartre district in 1884. Here, he met Edgar Degas, whom he came to admire. He soon

 

began to frequent the district's cabarets, including the Elysee-Montmartre, the Moulin de la Galette and the Mirliton, run

 

by Artistide Bruant, where he displayed his works. That year, he also had his first exhibition at the Pau.

In 1886, Lautrec met Vincent Van Gogh at Cormon's studio, where the Dutch painter had come to study. They quickly

 

became friends, though Lautrec left the studio only a few months later, his education there concluded. This was also the

 

year when he met Suzanne Valadon, who modelled for him, and they began a relationship. It didn't last long; two years

 

later, Valadon attempted suicide and the couple broke up. See The Laundress, which is one of the artist's depiction of

 

his mistress.

By this point, Lautrec's art was beginning to attract greater notice. In 1887, he participated in an exhibition in Toulouse,

 

where he assumed a false name, in order to distance himself from his father, the Count of Toulouse. In Paris, he

 

exhibited together with Van Gogh. He was invited to send some of his work to the les Vingt ("The Twenty") exhibition,

 

taking place early in 1888, in Brussels. At the same exhibition, two years later, Lautrec had a fierce argument with the

 

painter Henry de Groux over the inclusion of Van Gogh's work, and challenged the Belgian to a duel. The duel never took

 

place, but it shows the friendship Lautrec and Van Gogh shared. Van Gogh stayed with Lautrec in Paris, not long before

 

his suicide in 1890. See Toulouse-Lautrec's portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.

In 1889, Lautrec participated in the Salon des Independants for the first time. He would become a frequent contributor to

 

the Salon's exhibitions. He spent the summer on France's Atlantic coast, yachting. This year saw the opening of the

 

cabaret Moulin Rouge in the Montmartre; Lautrec immediately became a regular, and would often show his work at the

 

establishment. In modern popular culture, the name Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is inseparably linked to the Moulin Rouge,

 

and it is true that some of his most iconic work was made there, including his notorious Moulin Rouge poster of 1891 (La

 

Goulue), Valentin "the Boneless" Training the New Girls (1890), and others.

Though Lautrec is most famous for his depictions of Parisian night-life, he was a man of constantly-evolving interests,

 

both artistically and otherwise. Around 1893, moved away from the cabarets and took an interest in literature and

 

theater. He made his first engraving in 1891, and his later works include many lithographs, such as Les Ambassadeurs:

 

Aristide Bruant (1892), May Milton (1895), The Jockey (1899), and others. In 1893, he took part in an exhibition devoted

 

to painters and engravers. That year was important as well, because he had his first solo exhibition at the gallery of

 

Maurice Joyant. In this, he was part of a modern trend for the celebration of individual artistic achievement. Prior to the

 

late 19th Century, exhibitions had always been collective, featuring numerous artists.

Lautrec spent a lot of the time between 1894 and 1897 travelling. He visited London, Madrid and Toledo in Spain,

 

Brussels, Haarlem and Amsterdam. In England, the painter became acquainted with Whistler and Oscar Wilde, both of

 

whom he saw as role models -- the former for his art, the latter for his lifestyle. In Spain, he took inspiration from the old

 

masters: Velasquez, Goya and El Greco. In Holland, he studied Rembrandt, Bruegel and Hals. In Brussels, in 1895 and

 

again in 1897, he took part in exhibitions organized by the group La Libre Esthetique (The Free Aesthetic), the

 

successors to les Vingt, where his work was exhibited side-by-side with that of Cezanne, Signac, Gauguin and Van

 

Gogh.

His lifestyle, ever erratic, was becoming increasingly so as a result of his drinking, which was rapidly spiralling out of

 

control. In 1894, on a whim, he moved into one of the brothels he frequented and lived there for some time. Some works

 

painted from his experience there include Rue de Moulins (1894), Prostitutes Around a Dinner Table (1894), Two

 

Friends (1894-95), In 1896, at a private exhibition in the gallery of Joyant, he got into altercation with no less a

 

personage than the former King of Serbia, Milan Obrenovic, whom he called an ignorant "pig farmer". By this time, he

 

was descending into outright alcoholism. In 1897, he had an attack of delirium tremens, while on summer vacation at

 

Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. His artistic output decreased sharply, as most of his days were spent in various states of

 

intoxication. His health deteriorated sharply. In 1899, he was confined to a mental hospital, attracting jabs from the press.

He died on September 9th, 1901, at the age of 36, at one of his beloved mother's homes in Malrome. His last two

 

paintings were "Admiral Viaud" and "An Examination at the Faculty of Medicine".

 

Biography by Yuri Mataev

Bibliography:

Court Painter to the Wicked. The Life and Work of Toulouse-Lautrec by Jean Bouret. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. NY 1968

Toulouse_Lautrec. A Life. by Julia Frey Viking. 1994

Nightlife of Paris. The Art of Toulouse-Lautrec by Patrick O'Connor. Universe, NY.1991

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec by Herhard Gruitrooy. 1996.

Toulouse-Lautrec by Philippe Huisman and M.G. Dortu. Chartwell Books, Inc.1971

Toulouse-Lautrec His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints by Jean Adhemar. Harry N.Abrams, Inc. NY

Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works by Gotz Adriani. Thames & Hudson, 1988.

H. de Toulouse-Lautrec: One Hundred Ten Unpublished Drawings by Arthur William Heintzelman, Edouard Julien, M.

 

Roland O. Heintzelman. French & European Pubns, 1955.

Maker: André Adolphe Eugène Disderi (1819-1889)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: albumen print

Size: 8 3/4 × 11 1/16 in

Location: France

 

Object No. 2021.113g

Shelf: C-62

 

Publication: Mr. Disderi, Windsor Castle, Twenty-nine Photographic Views of the interior of WindsorCastle, Photographed by the Gracious Permission of Her Majesty The Queen, London, 1867

 

Other Collections: The Getty, Royal Collection Trust

 

Provenance:

 

Notes: Interior view of an elongated room with a number of window niches along one side. At the end of the room is a throne set under a canopy. Three crystal chandeliers can be seen suspended from the ceiling.

 

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819 - 1889) a self-taught daguerreotypist, researched and improved upon the existing collodion-on-glass negative process, which he outlined in his first publication, Manuel Opératoire de Photographie sur Collodion Instantané, 1853. That same year, he returned to Paris and opened the largest studio in Paris, which spread across two floors. It was there that he introduced his carte-de-visite portraits which were a great financial success. For the 1855 Paris Exposition Universelle, he formed the Société du Palais de l'Industrie and obtained the rights to photograph all the products and works of art exhibited at the Exposition. Eder writes "Disdéri was considered the outstanding portrait photographer of his time in Paris. Napoleon III appointed him court photographer. In 1861, he instructed French officers in photography under orders from the minister of war. Disdéri's popularity is best shown by the fact that his character was introduced in 1861 as a star attraction on the stage of a small vaudeville theater in Paris by a realistic representation featuring his bald head and tremendous beard."

(Source: Andrew. Cahan)

 

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Jeune fille se defendant contre l´amour

-The Margaret Bridge has a length of more than six hundred meters. Six steel spans with a lattice structure rest on massive pillars. The bridge was built by the 'Société de Construction des Battignoles', the Parisian construction firm of Ernest Goüin, who was one of the pioneers in the construction of metal bridges. One of the most notable aspects of the bridge is its strange v-shape: the bridge has an angle of 165 degrees at the point where it branches off to Margaret Island.

 

The bridge's pillars are decorated with massive statues of galley prows, created by the French sculptor Adolphe Martial Thabard, a student of Francisque Duret. The prows are adorned with large figureheads in the shape of winged female figures. The central pillar is decorated with a commemorative plaque. Above the plaque is a relief of the Hungarian crown flanked by two obelisks.

Toulouse Lautrec Impressionist Painting Young Girl & Eros - Adolphe c.1882

Attributed to Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) After William Bouguereau

 

Approx: Size 47" tall x 35.25" wide (without the frame) - 62.75" tall x 51" wide (with Frame)

 

History

 

William Bouguereau was France's most popular painter of the late 1800s. A leader of the Academic School,

 

Bouguereau specialized in carefully detailed mythological and genre scenes, and was particularly noted for his tender

 

portrayals of children. "The Abduction of Psyche" (1895) is probably his best-known work. Today many critics dismiss

 

his style as kitsch and do not look kindly on his harmful opposition to new creative trends; but his exquisite craftsmanship

 

is undeniable. Bouguereau completed over 800 paintings, many of them life-sized. Adolphe William Bouguereau (he

 

never used his first name) was born in La Rochelle, France. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and won the Prix de

 

Rome in 1850. In 1868 he built a lavish studio in Montparnasse and helped make that area the foremost artists' quarter

 

in Paris. Around this time he also began a liason with one of his students, American painter Elizabeth Gardner;

 

Bouguereau's mother opposed the relationship and the couple did not marry until her death in 1896. As comparatively

 

obscure as he is these days, it's difficult to imagine what a star Bouguereau was in the art world of his era. He worked

 

hard to fufil his many commissions and his paintings were so sought after, and fetched such high prices, that he once

 

boasted, "I lose five francs every time I pee". Engraved reproductions of his works sold in the millions. Along with wealth

 

and fame came many honors, including election to the Institute of France and being named a Grand Officer of the Legion

 

of Honor. Reactionary in visual tastes, Bouguereau believed art should idealize beauty and turned up his nose at

 

anything that even remotely deviated from this dictum. As President of the Society of French Artists from 1881, he

 

oversaw the selection of the thousands of paintings shown annually at the Paris Salon, the only real avenue to success

 

for aspiring Gallic painters and sculptors. For decades he used this position to hinder the press and public from

 

discovering the revolutionary changes that were taking place in French painting, including Impressionism, Realism,

 

Pointillism, and the singular efforts of Paul Gaugin, Henri Rousseau, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Paul Cezanne, who

 

submitted canvases to that venue every year only to have them rejected, finally gave up and declared, "I don't stand a

 

chance in Monsieur Bouguereau's Salon". Rival salons sprang up in Paris to combat Bouguereau's conservatism, but he

 

remained powerful and influential until his death at 79. (bio by: Bobb Edwards)

 

In 1882, Lautrec moved from Albi to Paris, where he studied art in the ateliers of two academic painters, Léon Bonnat

 

(1833–1922) and Fernand Cormon (1845–1924), who also taught Émile Bernard (1868–1941) and Vincent van Gogh

 

(1853–1890). Lautrec soon began painting en plein air in the manner of the Impressionists, and often posed sitters in the

 

Montmartre garden of his neighbor, Père Forest, a retired photographer. One of his favorite models was a prostitute

 

nicknamed La Casque d'Or (Golden Helmet), seen in the painting The Streetwalker (2003.20.13). Lautrec used peinture

 

à l'essence, or oil thinned with turpentine, on cardboard, rendering visible his loose, sketchy brushwork. The

 

transposition of this creature of the night to the bright light of day—her pallid complexion and artificial hair color clash with

 

the naturalistic setting—signals Lautrec's fascination with sordid and dissolute subjects. Later in his career, he would

 

devote an entire series of prints, called Elles, to life inside a brothel (1984.1203.166).

 

The most notable painting from the Harris collection was the early Toulouse-Lautrec painting "La blanchisseuse" (1886-

 

87), a young laundress with copper-colored hair and a pearly white blouse. Its optimistic presale estimate of $20 million

 

to $25 million turned out to be justified, as the painting sold for $22.4 million to a phone bidder. The price was a record

 

for a work by the artist sold at auction, $6 million more than the previous highest price.

 

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) was a French artist of the late 19th Century, most closely associated with the

 

Symbolists, but with a unique, distinctive style of his own. His depictions of Parisian night life and society -- vivid, candid,

 

energetic and unflattering -- are instantly recognizable, and typify that place and period in the minds of many. The

 

painter's own life has become a legend that has inspired many romanticized interpretations.

Henri-Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa was born on November 24, 1864, in the town of Albi, in the south of

 

France. He was the first child and heir of Alphonse Charlers Jean Marie (1838-1913), Count of Toulouse, and his wife

 

Marie Marquette Zoe Adele Tapie de Celeyran (1841-1930). Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec was an avid

 

sportsman and hunter, with a penchant for flamboyant outfits. Marie de Celeyran, by contrast, was very reserved and shy,

 

and doted on her first child. Young Henri was probably first introduced to painting through his uncles, several of whom

 

were amateur artists. He received his first tutelage in art from Rene Princeteau, a well-known sports-painter and a friend

 

of his father's.

Much of Henri's early childhood was spent in the Chateau de Celeyran, his mother's familial home, near the

 

Mediterranean town of Narbonne, where he spent much time drawing and painting the life and landscape of the estate. In

 

1868, his parents separated; Henri would live mostly with his mother. In 1872, he was enrolled in the prestigious Lycee

 

Fontanes in Paris, but he left the school only three short years later, in 1875, due to health reasons. Together with his

 

mother, he moved back to the south of France, and its gentler climate.

In 1878, Henri broke his left thigh as he was getting up out of a chair. Bed-ridden, he spent his time reading, drawing and

 

painting. A year later and just barely recovered from his first injury, he broke his other thigh whilst taking a walk with his

 

mother. The growth of his legs was stunted forever, and he never grew taller than 5 feet. There is much speculation about

 

the causes of the painter's medical condition. From the evidence we have today, it is probable that he suffered from

 

brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta), a genetic disorder that prevents bones and connective tissues from

 

developing properly. Osteogenesis imperfecta was not uncommon among the European aristocracy, and this would

 

explain Henri's physical frailty and other symptoms. Be that as it may, his illness was never identified during his lifetime,

 

and nothing his mother and his doctors undertook would help.

Meanwhile, Henri continued to pursue art. By 1880, he had produced as many as two and a half thousand works, in a

 

variety of techniques. Encouraged by his uncle Charles and by Princeteau, he eventually managed to convince his

 

mother to allow him to return to Paris to study art. In 1881, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec set up residence in Princeteau's

 

Paris studio.

In 1882, the young artist was accepted into the studio of the famous painter and art teacher Leon Bonnat. However,

 

Bonnat took an immediate dislike to Toulouse-Lautrec, who, already then, had something of a caustic personality. The

 

two did not get along well, and after Bonnat became a professor at the Paris Academy of Art, Lautrec quit his studio and

 

began to study, instead, under Fernand Cormon. Cormon was a talented artist in his own right, and an enthusiastic

 

teacher, and his workshop attracted many young painters who would later be among the shapers of the art world.

  

Under Cormon, Toulouse-Lautrec explored many styles and techniques. He received a firm grounding in academic

 

painting, but Cormon also encouraged his students to explore Impressionism and contemporary directions in art. Two of

 

the painter's works from this period are the Artist's Mother (1883) and the Young Routy at Celeyran (1883).

In 1883, Lautrec had his first romantic liaison with Marie Charlet, a 17-year-old model. The painter would have many

 

affairs over the course of his rather brief life. All of them would be with women far below his station, and none of them

 

were very long-lasting. Although the artist immersed himself in the life of the lower classes -- the cabarets, the dance

 

halls and the brothels -- he always retained an aristocratic aloofness and a sense of his own superiority. He was not

 

attempting to become part of that life: he was rather an unprejudiced observer; a doctor or a scientist, trying to dissect it

 

and give it life, in his art.

Lautrec moved into the Montmartre district in 1884. Here, he met Edgar Degas, whom he came to admire. He soon

 

began to frequent the district's cabarets, including the Elysee-Montmartre, the Moulin de la Galette and the Mirliton, run

 

by Artistide Bruant, where he displayed his works. That year, he also had his first exhibition at the Pau.

In 1886, Lautrec met Vincent Van Gogh at Cormon's studio, where the Dutch painter had come to study. They quickly

 

became friends, though Lautrec left the studio only a few months later, his education there concluded. This was also the

 

year when he met Suzanne Valadon, who modelled for him, and they began a relationship. It didn't last long; two years

 

later, Valadon attempted suicide and the couple broke up. See The Laundress, which is one of the artist's depiction of

 

his mistress.

By this point, Lautrec's art was beginning to attract greater notice. In 1887, he participated in an exhibition in Toulouse,

 

where he assumed a false name, in order to distance himself from his father, the Count of Toulouse. In Paris, he

 

exhibited together with Van Gogh. He was invited to send some of his work to the les Vingt ("The Twenty") exhibition,

 

taking place early in 1888, in Brussels. At the same exhibition, two years later, Lautrec had a fierce argument with the

 

painter Henry de Groux over the inclusion of Van Gogh's work, and challenged the Belgian to a duel. The duel never took

 

place, but it shows the friendship Lautrec and Van Gogh shared. Van Gogh stayed with Lautrec in Paris, not long before

 

his suicide in 1890. See Toulouse-Lautrec's portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.

In 1889, Lautrec participated in the Salon des Independants for the first time. He would become a frequent contributor to

 

the Salon's exhibitions. He spent the summer on France's Atlantic coast, yachting. This year saw the opening of the

 

cabaret Moulin Rouge in the Montmartre; Lautrec immediately became a regular, and would often show his work at the

 

establishment. In modern popular culture, the name Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is inseparably linked to the Moulin Rouge,

 

and it is true that some of his most iconic work was made there, including his notorious Moulin Rouge poster of 1891 (La

 

Goulue), Valentin "the Boneless" Training the New Girls (1890), and others.

Though Lautrec is most famous for his depictions of Parisian night-life, he was a man of constantly-evolving interests,

 

both artistically and otherwise. Around 1893, moved away from the cabarets and took an interest in literature and

 

theater. He made his first engraving in 1891, and his later works include many lithographs, such as Les Ambassadeurs:

 

Aristide Bruant (1892), May Milton (1895), The Jockey (1899), and others. In 1893, he took part in an exhibition devoted

 

to painters and engravers. That year was important as well, because he had his first solo exhibition at the gallery of

 

Maurice Joyant. In this, he was part of a modern trend for the celebration of individual artistic achievement. Prior to the

 

late 19th Century, exhibitions had always been collective, featuring numerous artists.

Lautrec spent a lot of the time between 1894 and 1897 travelling. He visited London, Madrid and Toledo in Spain,

 

Brussels, Haarlem and Amsterdam. In England, the painter became acquainted with Whistler and Oscar Wilde, both of

 

whom he saw as role models -- the former for his art, the latter for his lifestyle. In Spain, he took inspiration from the old

 

masters: Velasquez, Goya and El Greco. In Holland, he studied Rembrandt, Bruegel and Hals. In Brussels, in 1895 and

 

again in 1897, he took part in exhibitions organized by the group La Libre Esthetique (The Free Aesthetic), the

 

successors to les Vingt, where his work was exhibited side-by-side with that of Cezanne, Signac, Gauguin and Van

 

Gogh.

His lifestyle, ever erratic, was becoming increasingly so as a result of his drinking, which was rapidly spiralling out of

 

control. In 1894, on a whim, he moved into one of the brothels he frequented and lived there for some time. Some works

 

painted from his experience there include Rue de Moulins (1894), Prostitutes Around a Dinner Table (1894), Two

 

Friends (1894-95), In 1896, at a private exhibition in the gallery of Joyant, he got into altercation with no less a

 

personage than the former King of Serbia, Milan Obrenovic, whom he called an ignorant "pig farmer". By this time, he

 

was descending into outright alcoholism. In 1897, he had an attack of delirium tremens, while on summer vacation at

 

Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. His artistic output decreased sharply, as most of his days were spent in various states of

 

intoxication. His health deteriorated sharply. In 1899, he was confined to a mental hospital, attracting jabs from the press.

He died on September 9th, 1901, at the age of 36, at one of his beloved mother's homes in Malrome. His last two

 

paintings were "Admiral Viaud" and "An Examination at the Faculty of Medicine".

 

Biography by Yuri Mataev

Bibliography:

Court Painter to the Wicked. The Life and Work of Toulouse-Lautrec by Jean Bouret. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. NY 1968

Toulouse_Lautrec. A Life. by Julia Frey Viking. 1994

Nightlife of Paris. The Art of Toulouse-Lautrec by Patrick O'Connor. Universe, NY.1991

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec by Herhard Gruitrooy. 1996.

Toulouse-Lautrec by Philippe Huisman and M.G. Dortu. Chartwell Books, Inc.1971

Toulouse-Lautrec His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints by Jean Adhemar. Harry N.Abrams, Inc. NY

Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works by Gotz Adriani. Thames & Hudson, 1988.

H. de Toulouse-Lautrec: One Hundred Ten Unpublished Drawings by Arthur William Heintzelman, Edouard Julien, M.

 

Roland O. Heintzelman. French & European Pubns, 1955.

German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3337/2, 1928-1929. Photo: Paramount.

 

Suave and debonair American actor Adolphe Menjou (1890-1963) with his trademark waxy black moustache was one of Hollywood's most distinguished stars and one of America's 'Best Dressed Men'. He started as a matinée idol in the silent cinema in such classics as Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle (1924). His sound films included Morocco (1931) with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, A Star is Born (1937), and Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) with Kirk Douglas. In 1931, he was nominated for an Oscar for The Front Page (1931).

 

Adolphe Jean Menjou was born in 1890 in Pittsburgh. He was the elder son of hotel manager Albert Menjou. His Irish mother, Nora Menjou-Joyce, was a distant cousin of the famous Irish author James Joyce. Menjou had a younger brother, Henri Menjou, who made an attempt to become an actor and played in three films for Paramount in the mid-1930s. Their French émigré father moved the family to Cleveland, where he operated a chain of restaurants. He disapproved of show business and sent his son to Culver Military Academy in Indiana in the hopes of dissuading him from an acting career. Later, at Cornell University, Menjou abruptly changed his major engineering to liberal arts and began auditioning for college plays. He did some vaudeville work, and from 1915 on, he appeared as an extra for such film studios as Vitagraph, Edison and Biograph. During World War I, he served as a captain with the Ambulance Corps in France. After the war he found employment off-camera as a productions manager and unit manager. After six years of struggle he finally broke into the top ranks with substantial roles in The Faith Healer (George Melford, 1921) and Through the Back Door (Alfred E. Green, Jack Pickford, 1921), starring Mary Pickford. He earned a Paramount contract and played Louis XIII in The Three Musketeers (Fred Niblo, 1921), starring Douglas Fairbanks and the influential writer Raoul de Saint Hubert in Rudolph Valentino's classic The Sheik (George Melford, 1921). Menjou established his slick prototype as the urbane ladies' man and wealthy roué opposite Edna Purviance in Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923). Paramount capitalized on Menjou's playboy image by casting him as matinée leads in Broadway After Dark (Monta Bell, 1924), Sinners in Silk (Hobart Henley, 1924), The Ace of Cads (Luther Reed, 1926), A Social Celebrity (Malcolm St. Clair, 1926) and A Gentleman of Paris (Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, 1927).

 

The stock market crash led to the termination of Adolphe Menjou's Paramount contract and his status as a leading man. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "MGM took him on at half his Paramount salary and his fluency in such languages as French and Spanish kept him employed at the beginning. Rivalling Gary Cooper for the attentions of Marlene Dietrich in Morocco (1930) started the ball rolling for Menjou as a dressy second lead. Rarely placed in leads following this period, he managed his one and only Oscar nomination for "Best Actor" with his performance as editor Walter Burns in The Front Page (Lewis Milestone, 1931). " Other successful films include Forbidden (Frank Capra, 1932), Little Miss Marker (Alexander Hall, 1934), A Star is Born (William A. Wellman, 1937), Stage Door (Gregory La Cava, 1937) and Golden Boy (Rouben Mamoulian, 1939). During the war, he entertained the troops overseas and worked for the radio. He played the slick and slimy lawyer Billy Flynn opposite Ginger Rogers in Roxie Hart (William A. Wellman, 1942). After the war he played secondary parts in The Hucksters (Jack Conway, 1947) and State of the Union (Frank Capra, 1948). His last lead was in the crackerjack thriller The Sniper (Edward Dmytryk, 1952). His role was a San Francisco homicide detective tracking down a killer who preys on women in San Francisco. For the first time in nearly two decades, he appeared without his moustache .In 1947, Menjou cooperated with the House Committee on Un-American Activities in its hunt for communists in Hollywood. Menjou was a leading member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a group formed to oppose communist influence in Hollywood. His last notable film was the classic anti-war picture Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) in which he played the villainous General Broulard. After Disney's Pollyanna (David Swift, 1960), featuring Hayley Mills, he retired from acting. In 1963, he died in his home in Beverly Hills after a nine-month battle with hepatitis. He married three times. His second wife was actress and co-star Kathryn Carver. They married in 1928 and divorced in 1934. Since 1934 he was married to actress Verree Teasdale, with whom he had an adopted son, Peter. His autobiography was called 'It Took Nine Tailors' (1947).

 

Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.

Maker: Adolphe Braun (1812-1877)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: albumen print

Size: 6.25 in x 4.25 in

Location: France

 

Object No. 2011.022

Shelf: E-52-BRAU

 

Publication:

 

Other Collections: Auer Photo Foundation

 

Notes: TBAL

 

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Maker: Adolphe Louis Donnadieu (1840–1911)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: photocollographie par MM Thvoz et Cie

Size: 6 1/2" x 9 3/4"

Location:

 

Object No. 2016.645f

Shelf: B-40

 

Publication: A. L. Donnadieu - Traite Photographie Stereoscopique, Theorie et Pratique, Atlas, 1892, Pl XVII

 

Other Collections:

 

Provenance:

 

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Maker: Adolphe Louis Donnadieu (1840–1911)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: photocollographie par MM Thvoz et Cie

Size: 6 1/2" x 9 3/4"

Location:

 

Object No. 2016.645e

Shelf: B-40

 

Publication: A. L. Donnadieu - Traite Photographie Stereoscopique, Theorie et Pratique,Atlas, 1892

 

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Toulouse Lautrec Impressionist Painting Young Girl & Eros - Adolphe c.1882

Attributed to Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) After William Bouguereau

 

Approx: Size 47" tall x 35.25" wide (without the frame) - 62.75" tall x 51" wide (with Frame)

 

History

 

William Bouguereau was France's most popular painter of the late 1800s. A leader of the Academic School,

 

Bouguereau specialized in carefully detailed mythological and genre scenes, and was particularly noted for his tender

 

portrayals of children. "The Abduction of Psyche" (1895) is probably his best-known work. Today many critics dismiss

 

his style as kitsch and do not look kindly on his harmful opposition to new creative trends; but his exquisite craftsmanship

 

is undeniable. Bouguereau completed over 800 paintings, many of them life-sized. Adolphe William Bouguereau (he

 

never used his first name) was born in La Rochelle, France. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and won the Prix de

 

Rome in 1850. In 1868 he built a lavish studio in Montparnasse and helped make that area the foremost artists' quarter

 

in Paris. Around this time he also began a liason with one of his students, American painter Elizabeth Gardner;

 

Bouguereau's mother opposed the relationship and the couple did not marry until her death in 1896. As comparatively

 

obscure as he is these days, it's difficult to imagine what a star Bouguereau was in the art world of his era. He worked

 

hard to fufil his many commissions and his paintings were so sought after, and fetched such high prices, that he once

 

boasted, "I lose five francs every time I pee". Engraved reproductions of his works sold in the millions. Along with wealth

 

and fame came many honors, including election to the Institute of France and being named a Grand Officer of the Legion

 

of Honor. Reactionary in visual tastes, Bouguereau believed art should idealize beauty and turned up his nose at

 

anything that even remotely deviated from this dictum. As President of the Society of French Artists from 1881, he

 

oversaw the selection of the thousands of paintings shown annually at the Paris Salon, the only real avenue to success

 

for aspiring Gallic painters and sculptors. For decades he used this position to hinder the press and public from

 

discovering the revolutionary changes that were taking place in French painting, including Impressionism, Realism,

 

Pointillism, and the singular efforts of Paul Gaugin, Henri Rousseau, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Paul Cezanne, who

 

submitted canvases to that venue every year only to have them rejected, finally gave up and declared, "I don't stand a

 

chance in Monsieur Bouguereau's Salon". Rival salons sprang up in Paris to combat Bouguereau's conservatism, but he

 

remained powerful and influential until his death at 79. (bio by: Bobb Edwards)

 

In 1882, Lautrec moved from Albi to Paris, where he studied art in the ateliers of two academic painters, Léon Bonnat

 

(1833–1922) and Fernand Cormon (1845–1924), who also taught Émile Bernard (1868–1941) and Vincent van Gogh

 

(1853–1890). Lautrec soon began painting en plein air in the manner of the Impressionists, and often posed sitters in the

 

Montmartre garden of his neighbor, Père Forest, a retired photographer. One of his favorite models was a prostitute

 

nicknamed La Casque d'Or (Golden Helmet), seen in the painting The Streetwalker (2003.20.13). Lautrec used peinture

 

à l'essence, or oil thinned with turpentine, on cardboard, rendering visible his loose, sketchy brushwork. The

 

transposition of this creature of the night to the bright light of day—her pallid complexion and artificial hair color clash with

 

the naturalistic setting—signals Lautrec's fascination with sordid and dissolute subjects. Later in his career, he would

 

devote an entire series of prints, called Elles, to life inside a brothel (1984.1203.166).

 

The most notable painting from the Harris collection was the early Toulouse-Lautrec painting "La blanchisseuse" (1886-

 

87), a young laundress with copper-colored hair and a pearly white blouse. Its optimistic presale estimate of $20 million

 

to $25 million turned out to be justified, as the painting sold for $22.4 million to a phone bidder. The price was a record

 

for a work by the artist sold at auction, $6 million more than the previous highest price.

 

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) was a French artist of the late 19th Century, most closely associated with the

 

Symbolists, but with a unique, distinctive style of his own. His depictions of Parisian night life and society -- vivid, candid,

 

energetic and unflattering -- are instantly recognizable, and typify that place and period in the minds of many. The

 

painter's own life has become a legend that has inspired many romanticized interpretations.

Henri-Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa was born on November 24, 1864, in the town of Albi, in the south of

 

France. He was the first child and heir of Alphonse Charlers Jean Marie (1838-1913), Count of Toulouse, and his wife

 

Marie Marquette Zoe Adele Tapie de Celeyran (1841-1930). Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec was an avid

 

sportsman and hunter, with a penchant for flamboyant outfits. Marie de Celeyran, by contrast, was very reserved and shy,

 

and doted on her first child. Young Henri was probably first introduced to painting through his uncles, several of whom

 

were amateur artists. He received his first tutelage in art from Rene Princeteau, a well-known sports-painter and a friend

 

of his father's.

Much of Henri's early childhood was spent in the Chateau de Celeyran, his mother's familial home, near the

 

Mediterranean town of Narbonne, where he spent much time drawing and painting the life and landscape of the estate. In

 

1868, his parents separated; Henri would live mostly with his mother. In 1872, he was enrolled in the prestigious Lycee

 

Fontanes in Paris, but he left the school only three short years later, in 1875, due to health reasons. Together with his

 

mother, he moved back to the south of France, and its gentler climate.

In 1878, Henri broke his left thigh as he was getting up out of a chair. Bed-ridden, he spent his time reading, drawing and

 

painting. A year later and just barely recovered from his first injury, he broke his other thigh whilst taking a walk with his

 

mother. The growth of his legs was stunted forever, and he never grew taller than 5 feet. There is much speculation about

 

the causes of the painter's medical condition. From the evidence we have today, it is probable that he suffered from

 

brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta), a genetic disorder that prevents bones and connective tissues from

 

developing properly. Osteogenesis imperfecta was not uncommon among the European aristocracy, and this would

 

explain Henri's physical frailty and other symptoms. Be that as it may, his illness was never identified during his lifetime,

 

and nothing his mother and his doctors undertook would help.

Meanwhile, Henri continued to pursue art. By 1880, he had produced as many as two and a half thousand works, in a

 

variety of techniques. Encouraged by his uncle Charles and by Princeteau, he eventually managed to convince his

 

mother to allow him to return to Paris to study art. In 1881, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec set up residence in Princeteau's

 

Paris studio.

In 1882, the young artist was accepted into the studio of the famous painter and art teacher Leon Bonnat. However,

 

Bonnat took an immediate dislike to Toulouse-Lautrec, who, already then, had something of a caustic personality. The

 

two did not get along well, and after Bonnat became a professor at the Paris Academy of Art, Lautrec quit his studio and

 

began to study, instead, under Fernand Cormon. Cormon was a talented artist in his own right, and an enthusiastic

 

teacher, and his workshop attracted many young painters who would later be among the shapers of the art world.

  

Under Cormon, Toulouse-Lautrec explored many styles and techniques. He received a firm grounding in academic

 

painting, but Cormon also encouraged his students to explore Impressionism and contemporary directions in art. Two of

 

the painter's works from this period are the Artist's Mother (1883) and the Young Routy at Celeyran (1883).

In 1883, Lautrec had his first romantic liaison with Marie Charlet, a 17-year-old model. The painter would have many

 

affairs over the course of his rather brief life. All of them would be with women far below his station, and none of them

 

were very long-lasting. Although the artist immersed himself in the life of the lower classes -- the cabarets, the dance

 

halls and the brothels -- he always retained an aristocratic aloofness and a sense of his own superiority. He was not

 

attempting to become part of that life: he was rather an unprejudiced observer; a doctor or a scientist, trying to dissect it

 

and give it life, in his art.

Lautrec moved into the Montmartre district in 1884. Here, he met Edgar Degas, whom he came to admire. He soon

 

began to frequent the district's cabarets, including the Elysee-Montmartre, the Moulin de la Galette and the Mirliton, run

 

by Artistide Bruant, where he displayed his works. That year, he also had his first exhibition at the Pau.

In 1886, Lautrec met Vincent Van Gogh at Cormon's studio, where the Dutch painter had come to study. They quickly

 

became friends, though Lautrec left the studio only a few months later, his education there concluded. This was also the

 

year when he met Suzanne Valadon, who modelled for him, and they began a relationship. It didn't last long; two years

 

later, Valadon attempted suicide and the couple broke up. See The Laundress, which is one of the artist's depiction of

 

his mistress.

By this point, Lautrec's art was beginning to attract greater notice. In 1887, he participated in an exhibition in Toulouse,

 

where he assumed a false name, in order to distance himself from his father, the Count of Toulouse. In Paris, he

 

exhibited together with Van Gogh. He was invited to send some of his work to the les Vingt ("The Twenty") exhibition,

 

taking place early in 1888, in Brussels. At the same exhibition, two years later, Lautrec had a fierce argument with the

 

painter Henry de Groux over the inclusion of Van Gogh's work, and challenged the Belgian to a duel. The duel never took

 

place, but it shows the friendship Lautrec and Van Gogh shared. Van Gogh stayed with Lautrec in Paris, not long before

 

his suicide in 1890. See Toulouse-Lautrec's portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.

In 1889, Lautrec participated in the Salon des Independants for the first time. He would become a frequent contributor to

 

the Salon's exhibitions. He spent the summer on France's Atlantic coast, yachting. This year saw the opening of the

 

cabaret Moulin Rouge in the Montmartre; Lautrec immediately became a regular, and would often show his work at the

 

establishment. In modern popular culture, the name Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is inseparably linked to the Moulin Rouge,

 

and it is true that some of his most iconic work was made there, including his notorious Moulin Rouge poster of 1891 (La

 

Goulue), Valentin "the Boneless" Training the New Girls (1890), and others.

Though Lautrec is most famous for his depictions of Parisian night-life, he was a man of constantly-evolving interests,

 

both artistically and otherwise. Around 1893, moved away from the cabarets and took an interest in literature and

 

theater. He made his first engraving in 1891, and his later works include many lithographs, such as Les Ambassadeurs:

 

Aristide Bruant (1892), May Milton (1895), The Jockey (1899), and others. In 1893, he took part in an exhibition devoted

 

to painters and engravers. That year was important as well, because he had his first solo exhibition at the gallery of

 

Maurice Joyant. In this, he was part of a modern trend for the celebration of individual artistic achievement. Prior to the

 

late 19th Century, exhibitions had always been collective, featuring numerous artists.

Lautrec spent a lot of the time between 1894 and 1897 travelling. He visited London, Madrid and Toledo in Spain,

 

Brussels, Haarlem and Amsterdam. In England, the painter became acquainted with Whistler and Oscar Wilde, both of

 

whom he saw as role models -- the former for his art, the latter for his lifestyle. In Spain, he took inspiration from the old

 

masters: Velasquez, Goya and El Greco. In Holland, he studied Rembrandt, Bruegel and Hals. In Brussels, in 1895 and

 

again in 1897, he took part in exhibitions organized by the group La Libre Esthetique (The Free Aesthetic), the

 

successors to les Vingt, where his work was exhibited side-by-side with that of Cezanne, Signac, Gauguin and Van

 

Gogh.

His lifestyle, ever erratic, was becoming increasingly so as a result of his drinking, which was rapidly spiralling out of

 

control. In 1894, on a whim, he moved into one of the brothels he frequented and lived there for some time. Some works

 

painted from his experience there include Rue de Moulins (1894), Prostitutes Around a Dinner Table (1894), Two

 

Friends (1894-95), In 1896, at a private exhibition in the gallery of Joyant, he got into altercation with no less a

 

personage than the former King of Serbia, Milan Obrenovic, whom he called an ignorant "pig farmer". By this time, he

 

was descending into outright alcoholism. In 1897, he had an attack of delirium tremens, while on summer vacation at

 

Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. His artistic output decreased sharply, as most of his days were spent in various states of

 

intoxication. His health deteriorated sharply. In 1899, he was confined to a mental hospital, attracting jabs from the press.

He died on September 9th, 1901, at the age of 36, at one of his beloved mother's homes in Malrome. His last two

 

paintings were "Admiral Viaud" and "An Examination at the Faculty of Medicine".

 

Biography by Yuri Mataev

Bibliography:

Court Painter to the Wicked. The Life and Work of Toulouse-Lautrec by Jean Bouret. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. NY 1968

Toulouse_Lautrec. A Life. by Julia Frey Viking. 1994

Nightlife of Paris. The Art of Toulouse-Lautrec by Patrick O'Connor. Universe, NY.1991

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec by Herhard Gruitrooy. 1996.

Toulouse-Lautrec by Philippe Huisman and M.G. Dortu. Chartwell Books, Inc.1971

Toulouse-Lautrec His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints by Jean Adhemar. Harry N.Abrams, Inc. NY

Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works by Gotz Adriani. Thames & Hudson, 1988.

H. de Toulouse-Lautrec: One Hundred Ten Unpublished Drawings by Arthur William Heintzelman, Edouard Julien, M.

 

Roland O. Heintzelman. French & European Pubns, 1955.

Toulouse Lautrec Impressionist Painting Young Girl & Eros - Adolphe c.1882

Attributed to Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) After William Bouguereau

 

Approx: Size 47" tall x 35.25" wide (without the frame) - 62.75" tall x 51" wide (with Frame)

 

History

 

William Bouguereau was France's most popular painter of the late 1800s. A leader of the Academic School,

 

Bouguereau specialized in carefully detailed mythological and genre scenes, and was particularly noted for his tender

 

portrayals of children. "The Abduction of Psyche" (1895) is probably his best-known work. Today many critics dismiss

 

his style as kitsch and do not look kindly on his harmful opposition to new creative trends; but his exquisite craftsmanship

 

is undeniable. Bouguereau completed over 800 paintings, many of them life-sized. Adolphe William Bouguereau (he

 

never used his first name) was born in La Rochelle, France. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and won the Prix de

 

Rome in 1850. In 1868 he built a lavish studio in Montparnasse and helped make that area the foremost artists' quarter

 

in Paris. Around this time he also began a liason with one of his students, American painter Elizabeth Gardner;

 

Bouguereau's mother opposed the relationship and the couple did not marry until her death in 1896. As comparatively

 

obscure as he is these days, it's difficult to imagine what a star Bouguereau was in the art world of his era. He worked

 

hard to fufil his many commissions and his paintings were so sought after, and fetched such high prices, that he once

 

boasted, "I lose five francs every time I pee". Engraved reproductions of his works sold in the millions. Along with wealth

 

and fame came many honors, including election to the Institute of France and being named a Grand Officer of the Legion

 

of Honor. Reactionary in visual tastes, Bouguereau believed art should idealize beauty and turned up his nose at

 

anything that even remotely deviated from this dictum. As President of the Society of French Artists from 1881, he

 

oversaw the selection of the thousands of paintings shown annually at the Paris Salon, the only real avenue to success

 

for aspiring Gallic painters and sculptors. For decades he used this position to hinder the press and public from

 

discovering the revolutionary changes that were taking place in French painting, including Impressionism, Realism,

 

Pointillism, and the singular efforts of Paul Gaugin, Henri Rousseau, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Paul Cezanne, who

 

submitted canvases to that venue every year only to have them rejected, finally gave up and declared, "I don't stand a

 

chance in Monsieur Bouguereau's Salon". Rival salons sprang up in Paris to combat Bouguereau's conservatism, but he

 

remained powerful and influential until his death at 79. (bio by: Bobb Edwards)

 

In 1882, Lautrec moved from Albi to Paris, where he studied art in the ateliers of two academic painters, Léon Bonnat

 

(1833–1922) and Fernand Cormon (1845–1924), who also taught Émile Bernard (1868–1941) and Vincent van Gogh

 

(1853–1890). Lautrec soon began painting en plein air in the manner of the Impressionists, and often posed sitters in the

 

Montmartre garden of his neighbor, Père Forest, a retired photographer. One of his favorite models was a prostitute

 

nicknamed La Casque d'Or (Golden Helmet), seen in the painting The Streetwalker (2003.20.13). Lautrec used peinture

 

à l'essence, or oil thinned with turpentine, on cardboard, rendering visible his loose, sketchy brushwork. The

 

transposition of this creature of the night to the bright light of day—her pallid complexion and artificial hair color clash with

 

the naturalistic setting—signals Lautrec's fascination with sordid and dissolute subjects. Later in his career, he would

 

devote an entire series of prints, called Elles, to life inside a brothel (1984.1203.166).

 

The most notable painting from the Harris collection was the early Toulouse-Lautrec painting "La blanchisseuse" (1886-

 

87), a young laundress with copper-colored hair and a pearly white blouse. Its optimistic presale estimate of $20 million

 

to $25 million turned out to be justified, as the painting sold for $22.4 million to a phone bidder. The price was a record

 

for a work by the artist sold at auction, $6 million more than the previous highest price.

 

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) was a French artist of the late 19th Century, most closely associated with the

 

Symbolists, but with a unique, distinctive style of his own. His depictions of Parisian night life and society -- vivid, candid,

 

energetic and unflattering -- are instantly recognizable, and typify that place and period in the minds of many. The

 

painter's own life has become a legend that has inspired many romanticized interpretations.

Henri-Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa was born on November 24, 1864, in the town of Albi, in the south of

 

France. He was the first child and heir of Alphonse Charlers Jean Marie (1838-1913), Count of Toulouse, and his wife

 

Marie Marquette Zoe Adele Tapie de Celeyran (1841-1930). Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec was an avid

 

sportsman and hunter, with a penchant for flamboyant outfits. Marie de Celeyran, by contrast, was very reserved and shy,

 

and doted on her first child. Young Henri was probably first introduced to painting through his uncles, several of whom

 

were amateur artists. He received his first tutelage in art from Rene Princeteau, a well-known sports-painter and a friend

 

of his father's.

Much of Henri's early childhood was spent in the Chateau de Celeyran, his mother's familial home, near the

 

Mediterranean town of Narbonne, where he spent much time drawing and painting the life and landscape of the estate. In

 

1868, his parents separated; Henri would live mostly with his mother. In 1872, he was enrolled in the prestigious Lycee

 

Fontanes in Paris, but he left the school only three short years later, in 1875, due to health reasons. Together with his

 

mother, he moved back to the south of France, and its gentler climate.

In 1878, Henri broke his left thigh as he was getting up out of a chair. Bed-ridden, he spent his time reading, drawing and

 

painting. A year later and just barely recovered from his first injury, he broke his other thigh whilst taking a walk with his

 

mother. The growth of his legs was stunted forever, and he never grew taller than 5 feet. There is much speculation about

 

the causes of the painter's medical condition. From the evidence we have today, it is probable that he suffered from

 

brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta), a genetic disorder that prevents bones and connective tissues from

 

developing properly. Osteogenesis imperfecta was not uncommon among the European aristocracy, and this would

 

explain Henri's physical frailty and other symptoms. Be that as it may, his illness was never identified during his lifetime,

 

and nothing his mother and his doctors undertook would help.

Meanwhile, Henri continued to pursue art. By 1880, he had produced as many as two and a half thousand works, in a

 

variety of techniques. Encouraged by his uncle Charles and by Princeteau, he eventually managed to convince his

 

mother to allow him to return to Paris to study art. In 1881, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec set up residence in Princeteau's

 

Paris studio.

In 1882, the young artist was accepted into the studio of the famous painter and art teacher Leon Bonnat. However,

 

Bonnat took an immediate dislike to Toulouse-Lautrec, who, already then, had something of a caustic personality. The

 

two did not get along well, and after Bonnat became a professor at the Paris Academy of Art, Lautrec quit his studio and

 

began to study, instead, under Fernand Cormon. Cormon was a talented artist in his own right, and an enthusiastic

 

teacher, and his workshop attracted many young painters who would later be among the shapers of the art world.

  

Under Cormon, Toulouse-Lautrec explored many styles and techniques. He received a firm grounding in academic

 

painting, but Cormon also encouraged his students to explore Impressionism and contemporary directions in art. Two of

 

the painter's works from this period are the Artist's Mother (1883) and the Young Routy at Celeyran (1883).

In 1883, Lautrec had his first romantic liaison with Marie Charlet, a 17-year-old model. The painter would have many

 

affairs over the course of his rather brief life. All of them would be with women far below his station, and none of them

 

were very long-lasting. Although the artist immersed himself in the life of the lower classes -- the cabarets, the dance

 

halls and the brothels -- he always retained an aristocratic aloofness and a sense of his own superiority. He was not

 

attempting to become part of that life: he was rather an unprejudiced observer; a doctor or a scientist, trying to dissect it

 

and give it life, in his art.

Lautrec moved into the Montmartre district in 1884. Here, he met Edgar Degas, whom he came to admire. He soon

 

began to frequent the district's cabarets, including the Elysee-Montmartre, the Moulin de la Galette and the Mirliton, run

 

by Artistide Bruant, where he displayed his works. That year, he also had his first exhibition at the Pau.

In 1886, Lautrec met Vincent Van Gogh at Cormon's studio, where the Dutch painter had come to study. They quickly

 

became friends, though Lautrec left the studio only a few months later, his education there concluded. This was also the

 

year when he met Suzanne Valadon, who modelled for him, and they began a relationship. It didn't last long; two years

 

later, Valadon attempted suicide and the couple broke up. See The Laundress, which is one of the artist's depiction of

 

his mistress.

By this point, Lautrec's art was beginning to attract greater notice. In 1887, he participated in an exhibition in Toulouse,

 

where he assumed a false name, in order to distance himself from his father, the Count of Toulouse. In Paris, he

 

exhibited together with Van Gogh. He was invited to send some of his work to the les Vingt ("The Twenty") exhibition,

 

taking place early in 1888, in Brussels. At the same exhibition, two years later, Lautrec had a fierce argument with the

 

painter Henry de Groux over the inclusion of Van Gogh's work, and challenged the Belgian to a duel. The duel never took

 

place, but it shows the friendship Lautrec and Van Gogh shared. Van Gogh stayed with Lautrec in Paris, not long before

 

his suicide in 1890. See Toulouse-Lautrec's portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.

In 1889, Lautrec participated in the Salon des Independants for the first time. He would become a frequent contributor to

 

the Salon's exhibitions. He spent the summer on France's Atlantic coast, yachting. This year saw the opening of the

 

cabaret Moulin Rouge in the Montmartre; Lautrec immediately became a regular, and would often show his work at the

 

establishment. In modern popular culture, the name Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is inseparably linked to the Moulin Rouge,

 

and it is true that some of his most iconic work was made there, including his notorious Moulin Rouge poster of 1891 (La

 

Goulue), Valentin "the Boneless" Training the New Girls (1890), and others.

Though Lautrec is most famous for his depictions of Parisian night-life, he was a man of constantly-evolving interests,

 

both artistically and otherwise. Around 1893, moved away from the cabarets and took an interest in literature and

 

theater. He made his first engraving in 1891, and his later works include many lithographs, such as Les Ambassadeurs:

 

Aristide Bruant (1892), May Milton (1895), The Jockey (1899), and others. In 1893, he took part in an exhibition devoted

 

to painters and engravers. That year was important as well, because he had his first solo exhibition at the gallery of

 

Maurice Joyant. In this, he was part of a modern trend for the celebration of individual artistic achievement. Prior to the

 

late 19th Century, exhibitions had always been collective, featuring numerous artists.

Lautrec spent a lot of the time between 1894 and 1897 travelling. He visited London, Madrid and Toledo in Spain,

 

Brussels, Haarlem and Amsterdam. In England, the painter became acquainted with Whistler and Oscar Wilde, both of

 

whom he saw as role models -- the former for his art, the latter for his lifestyle. In Spain, he took inspiration from the old

 

masters: Velasquez, Goya and El Greco. In Holland, he studied Rembrandt, Bruegel and Hals. In Brussels, in 1895 and

 

again in 1897, he took part in exhibitions organized by the group La Libre Esthetique (The Free Aesthetic), the

 

successors to les Vingt, where his work was exhibited side-by-side with that of Cezanne, Signac, Gauguin and Van

 

Gogh.

His lifestyle, ever erratic, was becoming increasingly so as a result of his drinking, which was rapidly spiralling out of

 

control. In 1894, on a whim, he moved into one of the brothels he frequented and lived there for some time. Some works

 

painted from his experience there include Rue de Moulins (1894), Prostitutes Around a Dinner Table (1894), Two

 

Friends (1894-95), In 1896, at a private exhibition in the gallery of Joyant, he got into altercation with no less a

 

personage than the former King of Serbia, Milan Obrenovic, whom he called an ignorant "pig farmer". By this time, he

 

was descending into outright alcoholism. In 1897, he had an attack of delirium tremens, while on summer vacation at

 

Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. His artistic output decreased sharply, as most of his days were spent in various states of

 

intoxication. His health deteriorated sharply. In 1899, he was confined to a mental hospital, attracting jabs from the press.

He died on September 9th, 1901, at the age of 36, at one of his beloved mother's homes in Malrome. His last two

 

paintings were "Admiral Viaud" and "An Examination at the Faculty of Medicine".

 

Biography by Yuri Mataev

Bibliography:

Court Painter to the Wicked. The Life and Work of Toulouse-Lautrec by Jean Bouret. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. NY 1968

Toulouse_Lautrec. A Life. by Julia Frey Viking. 1994

Nightlife of Paris. The Art of Toulouse-Lautrec by Patrick O'Connor. Universe, NY.1991

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec by Herhard Gruitrooy. 1996.

Toulouse-Lautrec by Philippe Huisman and M.G. Dortu. Chartwell Books, Inc.1971

Toulouse-Lautrec His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints by Jean Adhemar. Harry N.Abrams, Inc. NY

Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works by Gotz Adriani. Thames & Hudson, 1988.

H. de Toulouse-Lautrec: One Hundred Ten Unpublished Drawings by Arthur William Heintzelman, Edouard Julien, M.

 

Roland O. Heintzelman. French & European Pubns, 1955.

The Adolphe Bridge, in Luxembourg City, was jointly designed by Paul Sejourne and Paul Rodange (a frenchman and Luxembourger, respectively). It was built between 1900 and 1903. It's become a National symbol, named after the Grand Duke Adolphe. It's also crossed by a bus line, and the bus is crossing the bridge in this photo.

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Maker: Adolphe Braun (1812-1877)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: albumen print

Size: 10" x 8.5"

Location: Cairo, Egypt

 

Object No. 2013.676

Shelf: D-32

 

Publication:

 

Other Collections:

 

Provenance: Philippe Doublet

Rank: 700

 

Notes: Part of a set of photographs taken by Adolphe Braun in 1869 when he traveled to Egypt for the inauguration of the Suez Canal.

  

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Catalog #: 09_01060

Title: Adolphe Heri DuBois Special Collection Photo

Additional Information: Group of unidentified men onboard ship, Adolphe Heri DuBois served during World War I,

Tags: Adolphe Heri DuBois Special Collection Photo

Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

Maker: Ernest Jaime & Adolphe Jean Baptiste Bayot

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: lithograph

Size:8 in x 5 3/4 in

Location:

 

Object No. 2018.320

Shelf: B-50

 

Publication: Paris et ses Environs Reproduits par le Daguerretype, Chez Aubert, Paris, 1840, Pl 36

 

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Notes: Title above image recto - Versailles Daguerreotype No 36

 

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Toulouse Lautrec Impressionist Painting Young Girl & Eros - Adolphe c.1882

Attributed to Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) After William Bouguereau

 

Approx: Size 47" tall x 35.25" wide (without the frame) - 62.75" tall x 51" wide (with Frame)

 

History

 

William Bouguereau was France's most popular painter of the late 1800s. A leader of the Academic School,

 

Bouguereau specialized in carefully detailed mythological and genre scenes, and was particularly noted for his tender

 

portrayals of children. "The Abduction of Psyche" (1895) is probably his best-known work. Today many critics dismiss

 

his style as kitsch and do not look kindly on his harmful opposition to new creative trends; but his exquisite craftsmanship

 

is undeniable. Bouguereau completed over 800 paintings, many of them life-sized. Adolphe William Bouguereau (he

 

never used his first name) was born in La Rochelle, France. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and won the Prix de

 

Rome in 1850. In 1868 he built a lavish studio in Montparnasse and helped make that area the foremost artists' quarter

 

in Paris. Around this time he also began a liason with one of his students, American painter Elizabeth Gardner;

 

Bouguereau's mother opposed the relationship and the couple did not marry until her death in 1896. As comparatively

 

obscure as he is these days, it's difficult to imagine what a star Bouguereau was in the art world of his era. He worked

 

hard to fufil his many commissions and his paintings were so sought after, and fetched such high prices, that he once

 

boasted, "I lose five francs every time I pee". Engraved reproductions of his works sold in the millions. Along with wealth

 

and fame came many honors, including election to the Institute of France and being named a Grand Officer of the Legion

 

of Honor. Reactionary in visual tastes, Bouguereau believed art should idealize beauty and turned up his nose at

 

anything that even remotely deviated from this dictum. As President of the Society of French Artists from 1881, he

 

oversaw the selection of the thousands of paintings shown annually at the Paris Salon, the only real avenue to success

 

for aspiring Gallic painters and sculptors. For decades he used this position to hinder the press and public from

 

discovering the revolutionary changes that were taking place in French painting, including Impressionism, Realism,

 

Pointillism, and the singular efforts of Paul Gaugin, Henri Rousseau, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Paul Cezanne, who

 

submitted canvases to that venue every year only to have them rejected, finally gave up and declared, "I don't stand a

 

chance in Monsieur Bouguereau's Salon". Rival salons sprang up in Paris to combat Bouguereau's conservatism, but he

 

remained powerful and influential until his death at 79. (bio by: Bobb Edwards)

 

In 1882, Lautrec moved from Albi to Paris, where he studied art in the ateliers of two academic painters, Léon Bonnat

 

(1833–1922) and Fernand Cormon (1845–1924), who also taught Émile Bernard (1868–1941) and Vincent van Gogh

 

(1853–1890). Lautrec soon began painting en plein air in the manner of the Impressionists, and often posed sitters in the

 

Montmartre garden of his neighbor, Père Forest, a retired photographer. One of his favorite models was a prostitute

 

nicknamed La Casque d'Or (Golden Helmet), seen in the painting The Streetwalker (2003.20.13). Lautrec used peinture

 

à l'essence, or oil thinned with turpentine, on cardboard, rendering visible his loose, sketchy brushwork. The

 

transposition of this creature of the night to the bright light of day—her pallid complexion and artificial hair color clash with

 

the naturalistic setting—signals Lautrec's fascination with sordid and dissolute subjects. Later in his career, he would

 

devote an entire series of prints, called Elles, to life inside a brothel (1984.1203.166).

 

The most notable painting from the Harris collection was the early Toulouse-Lautrec painting "La blanchisseuse" (1886-

 

87), a young laundress with copper-colored hair and a pearly white blouse. Its optimistic presale estimate of $20 million

 

to $25 million turned out to be justified, as the painting sold for $22.4 million to a phone bidder. The price was a record

 

for a work by the artist sold at auction, $6 million more than the previous highest price.

 

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) was a French artist of the late 19th Century, most closely associated with the

 

Symbolists, but with a unique, distinctive style of his own. His depictions of Parisian night life and society -- vivid, candid,

 

energetic and unflattering -- are instantly recognizable, and typify that place and period in the minds of many. The

 

painter's own life has become a legend that has inspired many romanticized interpretations.

Henri-Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa was born on November 24, 1864, in the town of Albi, in the south of

 

France. He was the first child and heir of Alphonse Charlers Jean Marie (1838-1913), Count of Toulouse, and his wife

 

Marie Marquette Zoe Adele Tapie de Celeyran (1841-1930). Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec was an avid

 

sportsman and hunter, with a penchant for flamboyant outfits. Marie de Celeyran, by contrast, was very reserved and shy,

 

and doted on her first child. Young Henri was probably first introduced to painting through his uncles, several of whom

 

were amateur artists. He received his first tutelage in art from Rene Princeteau, a well-known sports-painter and a friend

 

of his father's.

Much of Henri's early childhood was spent in the Chateau de Celeyran, his mother's familial home, near the

 

Mediterranean town of Narbonne, where he spent much time drawing and painting the life and landscape of the estate. In

 

1868, his parents separated; Henri would live mostly with his mother. In 1872, he was enrolled in the prestigious Lycee

 

Fontanes in Paris, but he left the school only three short years later, in 1875, due to health reasons. Together with his

 

mother, he moved back to the south of France, and its gentler climate.

In 1878, Henri broke his left thigh as he was getting up out of a chair. Bed-ridden, he spent his time reading, drawing and

 

painting. A year later and just barely recovered from his first injury, he broke his other thigh whilst taking a walk with his

 

mother. The growth of his legs was stunted forever, and he never grew taller than 5 feet. There is much speculation about

 

the causes of the painter's medical condition. From the evidence we have today, it is probable that he suffered from

 

brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta), a genetic disorder that prevents bones and connective tissues from

 

developing properly. Osteogenesis imperfecta was not uncommon among the European aristocracy, and this would

 

explain Henri's physical frailty and other symptoms. Be that as it may, his illness was never identified during his lifetime,

 

and nothing his mother and his doctors undertook would help.

Meanwhile, Henri continued to pursue art. By 1880, he had produced as many as two and a half thousand works, in a

 

variety of techniques. Encouraged by his uncle Charles and by Princeteau, he eventually managed to convince his

 

mother to allow him to return to Paris to study art. In 1881, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec set up residence in Princeteau's

 

Paris studio.

In 1882, the young artist was accepted into the studio of the famous painter and art teacher Leon Bonnat. However,

 

Bonnat took an immediate dislike to Toulouse-Lautrec, who, already then, had something of a caustic personality. The

 

two did not get along well, and after Bonnat became a professor at the Paris Academy of Art, Lautrec quit his studio and

 

began to study, instead, under Fernand Cormon. Cormon was a talented artist in his own right, and an enthusiastic

 

teacher, and his workshop attracted many young painters who would later be among the shapers of the art world.

  

Under Cormon, Toulouse-Lautrec explored many styles and techniques. He received a firm grounding in academic

 

painting, but Cormon also encouraged his students to explore Impressionism and contemporary directions in art. Two of

 

the painter's works from this period are the Artist's Mother (1883) and the Young Routy at Celeyran (1883).

In 1883, Lautrec had his first romantic liaison with Marie Charlet, a 17-year-old model. The painter would have many

 

affairs over the course of his rather brief life. All of them would be with women far below his station, and none of them

 

were very long-lasting. Although the artist immersed himself in the life of the lower classes -- the cabarets, the dance

 

halls and the brothels -- he always retained an aristocratic aloofness and a sense of his own superiority. He was not

 

attempting to become part of that life: he was rather an unprejudiced observer; a doctor or a scientist, trying to dissect it

 

and give it life, in his art.

Lautrec moved into the Montmartre district in 1884. Here, he met Edgar Degas, whom he came to admire. He soon

 

began to frequent the district's cabarets, including the Elysee-Montmartre, the Moulin de la Galette and the Mirliton, run

 

by Artistide Bruant, where he displayed his works. That year, he also had his first exhibition at the Pau.

In 1886, Lautrec met Vincent Van Gogh at Cormon's studio, where the Dutch painter had come to study. They quickly

 

became friends, though Lautrec left the studio only a few months later, his education there concluded. This was also the

 

year when he met Suzanne Valadon, who modelled for him, and they began a relationship. It didn't last long; two years

 

later, Valadon attempted suicide and the couple broke up. See The Laundress, which is one of the artist's depiction of

 

his mistress.

By this point, Lautrec's art was beginning to attract greater notice. In 1887, he participated in an exhibition in Toulouse,

 

where he assumed a false name, in order to distance himself from his father, the Count of Toulouse. In Paris, he

 

exhibited together with Van Gogh. He was invited to send some of his work to the les Vingt ("The Twenty") exhibition,

 

taking place early in 1888, in Brussels. At the same exhibition, two years later, Lautrec had a fierce argument with the

 

painter Henry de Groux over the inclusion of Van Gogh's work, and challenged the Belgian to a duel. The duel never took

 

place, but it shows the friendship Lautrec and Van Gogh shared. Van Gogh stayed with Lautrec in Paris, not long before

 

his suicide in 1890. See Toulouse-Lautrec's portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.

In 1889, Lautrec participated in the Salon des Independants for the first time. He would become a frequent contributor to

 

the Salon's exhibitions. He spent the summer on France's Atlantic coast, yachting. This year saw the opening of the

 

cabaret Moulin Rouge in the Montmartre; Lautrec immediately became a regular, and would often show his work at the

 

establishment. In modern popular culture, the name Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is inseparably linked to the Moulin Rouge,

 

and it is true that some of his most iconic work was made there, including his notorious Moulin Rouge poster of 1891 (La

 

Goulue), Valentin "the Boneless" Training the New Girls (1890), and others.

Though Lautrec is most famous for his depictions of Parisian night-life, he was a man of constantly-evolving interests,

 

both artistically and otherwise. Around 1893, moved away from the cabarets and took an interest in literature and

 

theater. He made his first engraving in 1891, and his later works include many lithographs, such as Les Ambassadeurs:

 

Aristide Bruant (1892), May Milton (1895), The Jockey (1899), and others. In 1893, he took part in an exhibition devoted

 

to painters and engravers. That year was important as well, because he had his first solo exhibition at the gallery of

 

Maurice Joyant. In this, he was part of a modern trend for the celebration of individual artistic achievement. Prior to the

 

late 19th Century, exhibitions had always been collective, featuring numerous artists.

Lautrec spent a lot of the time between 1894 and 1897 travelling. He visited London, Madrid and Toledo in Spain,

 

Brussels, Haarlem and Amsterdam. In England, the painter became acquainted with Whistler and Oscar Wilde, both of

 

whom he saw as role models -- the former for his art, the latter for his lifestyle. In Spain, he took inspiration from the old

 

masters: Velasquez, Goya and El Greco. In Holland, he studied Rembrandt, Bruegel and Hals. In Brussels, in 1895 and

 

again in 1897, he took part in exhibitions organized by the group La Libre Esthetique (The Free Aesthetic), the

 

successors to les Vingt, where his work was exhibited side-by-side with that of Cezanne, Signac, Gauguin and Van

 

Gogh.

His lifestyle, ever erratic, was becoming increasingly so as a result of his drinking, which was rapidly spiralling out of

 

control. In 1894, on a whim, he moved into one of the brothels he frequented and lived there for some time. Some works

 

painted from his experience there include Rue de Moulins (1894), Prostitutes Around a Dinner Table (1894), Two

 

Friends (1894-95), In 1896, at a private exhibition in the gallery of Joyant, he got into altercation with no less a

 

personage than the former King of Serbia, Milan Obrenovic, whom he called an ignorant "pig farmer". By this time, he

 

was descending into outright alcoholism. In 1897, he had an attack of delirium tremens, while on summer vacation at

 

Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. His artistic output decreased sharply, as most of his days were spent in various states of

 

intoxication. His health deteriorated sharply. In 1899, he was confined to a mental hospital, attracting jabs from the press.

He died on September 9th, 1901, at the age of 36, at one of his beloved mother's homes in Malrome. His last two

 

paintings were "Admiral Viaud" and "An Examination at the Faculty of Medicine".

 

Biography by Yuri Mataev

Bibliography:

Court Painter to the Wicked. The Life and Work of Toulouse-Lautrec by Jean Bouret. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. NY 1968

Toulouse_Lautrec. A Life. by Julia Frey Viking. 1994

Nightlife of Paris. The Art of Toulouse-Lautrec by Patrick O'Connor. Universe, NY.1991

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec by Herhard Gruitrooy. 1996.

Toulouse-Lautrec by Philippe Huisman and M.G. Dortu. Chartwell Books, Inc.1971

Toulouse-Lautrec His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints by Jean Adhemar. Harry N.Abrams, Inc. NY

Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works by Gotz Adriani. Thames & Hudson, 1988.

H. de Toulouse-Lautrec: One Hundred Ten Unpublished Drawings by Arthur William Heintzelman, Edouard Julien, M.

 

Roland O. Heintzelman. French & European Pubns, 1955.

Oil on canvas

31 1/4 x 21 5/8 in.

 

A Young Girl Defending Herself against Eros - Adolphe William Bouguereau 1880

 

www.getty.edu/museum

Jean Paul Getty Museum - Getty Center

 

1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles, CA 90049

Toulouse Lautrec Impressionist Painting Young Girl & Eros - Adolphe c.1882

Attributed to Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) After William Bouguereau

 

Approx: Size 47" tall x 35.25" wide (without the frame) - 62.75" tall x 51" wide (with Frame)

 

History

 

William Bouguereau was France's most popular painter of the late 1800s. A leader of the Academic School,

 

Bouguereau specialized in carefully detailed mythological and genre scenes, and was particularly noted for his tender

 

portrayals of children. "The Abduction of Psyche" (1895) is probably his best-known work. Today many critics dismiss

 

his style as kitsch and do not look kindly on his harmful opposition to new creative trends; but his exquisite craftsmanship

 

is undeniable. Bouguereau completed over 800 paintings, many of them life-sized. Adolphe William Bouguereau (he

 

never used his first name) was born in La Rochelle, France. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and won the Prix de

 

Rome in 1850. In 1868 he built a lavish studio in Montparnasse and helped make that area the foremost artists' quarter

 

in Paris. Around this time he also began a liason with one of his students, American painter Elizabeth Gardner;

 

Bouguereau's mother opposed the relationship and the couple did not marry until her death in 1896. As comparatively

 

obscure as he is these days, it's difficult to imagine what a star Bouguereau was in the art world of his era. He worked

 

hard to fufil his many commissions and his paintings were so sought after, and fetched such high prices, that he once

 

boasted, "I lose five francs every time I pee". Engraved reproductions of his works sold in the millions. Along with wealth

 

and fame came many honors, including election to the Institute of France and being named a Grand Officer of the Legion

 

of Honor. Reactionary in visual tastes, Bouguereau believed art should idealize beauty and turned up his nose at

 

anything that even remotely deviated from this dictum. As President of the Society of French Artists from 1881, he

 

oversaw the selection of the thousands of paintings shown annually at the Paris Salon, the only real avenue to success

 

for aspiring Gallic painters and sculptors. For decades he used this position to hinder the press and public from

 

discovering the revolutionary changes that were taking place in French painting, including Impressionism, Realism,

 

Pointillism, and the singular efforts of Paul Gaugin, Henri Rousseau, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Paul Cezanne, who

 

submitted canvases to that venue every year only to have them rejected, finally gave up and declared, "I don't stand a

 

chance in Monsieur Bouguereau's Salon". Rival salons sprang up in Paris to combat Bouguereau's conservatism, but he

 

remained powerful and influential until his death at 79. (bio by: Bobb Edwards)

 

In 1882, Lautrec moved from Albi to Paris, where he studied art in the ateliers of two academic painters, Léon Bonnat

 

(1833–1922) and Fernand Cormon (1845–1924), who also taught Émile Bernard (1868–1941) and Vincent van Gogh

 

(1853–1890). Lautrec soon began painting en plein air in the manner of the Impressionists, and often posed sitters in the

 

Montmartre garden of his neighbor, Père Forest, a retired photographer. One of his favorite models was a prostitute

 

nicknamed La Casque d'Or (Golden Helmet), seen in the painting The Streetwalker (2003.20.13). Lautrec used peinture

 

à l'essence, or oil thinned with turpentine, on cardboard, rendering visible his loose, sketchy brushwork. The

 

transposition of this creature of the night to the bright light of day—her pallid complexion and artificial hair color clash with

 

the naturalistic setting—signals Lautrec's fascination with sordid and dissolute subjects. Later in his career, he would

 

devote an entire series of prints, called Elles, to life inside a brothel (1984.1203.166).

 

The most notable painting from the Harris collection was the early Toulouse-Lautrec painting "La blanchisseuse" (1886-

 

87), a young laundress with copper-colored hair and a pearly white blouse. Its optimistic presale estimate of $20 million

 

to $25 million turned out to be justified, as the painting sold for $22.4 million to a phone bidder. The price was a record

 

for a work by the artist sold at auction, $6 million more than the previous highest price.

 

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) was a French artist of the late 19th Century, most closely associated with the

 

Symbolists, but with a unique, distinctive style of his own. His depictions of Parisian night life and society -- vivid, candid,

 

energetic and unflattering -- are instantly recognizable, and typify that place and period in the minds of many. The

 

painter's own life has become a legend that has inspired many romanticized interpretations.

Henri-Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa was born on November 24, 1864, in the town of Albi, in the south of

 

France. He was the first child and heir of Alphonse Charlers Jean Marie (1838-1913), Count of Toulouse, and his wife

 

Marie Marquette Zoe Adele Tapie de Celeyran (1841-1930). Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec was an avid

 

sportsman and hunter, with a penchant for flamboyant outfits. Marie de Celeyran, by contrast, was very reserved and shy,

 

and doted on her first child. Young Henri was probably first introduced to painting through his uncles, several of whom

 

were amateur artists. He received his first tutelage in art from Rene Princeteau, a well-known sports-painter and a friend

 

of his father's.

Much of Henri's early childhood was spent in the Chateau de Celeyran, his mother's familial home, near the

 

Mediterranean town of Narbonne, where he spent much time drawing and painting the life and landscape of the estate. In

 

1868, his parents separated; Henri would live mostly with his mother. In 1872, he was enrolled in the prestigious Lycee

 

Fontanes in Paris, but he left the school only three short years later, in 1875, due to health reasons. Together with his

 

mother, he moved back to the south of France, and its gentler climate.

In 1878, Henri broke his left thigh as he was getting up out of a chair. Bed-ridden, he spent his time reading, drawing and

 

painting. A year later and just barely recovered from his first injury, he broke his other thigh whilst taking a walk with his

 

mother. The growth of his legs was stunted forever, and he never grew taller than 5 feet. There is much speculation about

 

the causes of the painter's medical condition. From the evidence we have today, it is probable that he suffered from

 

brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta), a genetic disorder that prevents bones and connective tissues from

 

developing properly. Osteogenesis imperfecta was not uncommon among the European aristocracy, and this would

 

explain Henri's physical frailty and other symptoms. Be that as it may, his illness was never identified during his lifetime,

 

and nothing his mother and his doctors undertook would help.

Meanwhile, Henri continued to pursue art. By 1880, he had produced as many as two and a half thousand works, in a

 

variety of techniques. Encouraged by his uncle Charles and by Princeteau, he eventually managed to convince his

 

mother to allow him to return to Paris to study art. In 1881, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec set up residence in Princeteau's

 

Paris studio.

In 1882, the young artist was accepted into the studio of the famous painter and art teacher Leon Bonnat. However,

 

Bonnat took an immediate dislike to Toulouse-Lautrec, who, already then, had something of a caustic personality. The

 

two did not get along well, and after Bonnat became a professor at the Paris Academy of Art, Lautrec quit his studio and

 

began to study, instead, under Fernand Cormon. Cormon was a talented artist in his own right, and an enthusiastic

 

teacher, and his workshop attracted many young painters who would later be among the shapers of the art world.

  

Under Cormon, Toulouse-Lautrec explored many styles and techniques. He received a firm grounding in academic

 

painting, but Cormon also encouraged his students to explore Impressionism and contemporary directions in art. Two of

 

the painter's works from this period are the Artist's Mother (1883) and the Young Routy at Celeyran (1883).

In 1883, Lautrec had his first romantic liaison with Marie Charlet, a 17-year-old model. The painter would have many

 

affairs over the course of his rather brief life. All of them would be with women far below his station, and none of them

 

were very long-lasting. Although the artist immersed himself in the life of the lower classes -- the cabarets, the dance

 

halls and the brothels -- he always retained an aristocratic aloofness and a sense of his own superiority. He was not

 

attempting to become part of that life: he was rather an unprejudiced observer; a doctor or a scientist, trying to dissect it

 

and give it life, in his art.

Lautrec moved into the Montmartre district in 1884. Here, he met Edgar Degas, whom he came to admire. He soon

 

began to frequent the district's cabarets, including the Elysee-Montmartre, the Moulin de la Galette and the Mirliton, run

 

by Artistide Bruant, where he displayed his works. That year, he also had his first exhibition at the Pau.

In 1886, Lautrec met Vincent Van Gogh at Cormon's studio, where the Dutch painter had come to study. They quickly

 

became friends, though Lautrec left the studio only a few months later, his education there concluded. This was also the

 

year when he met Suzanne Valadon, who modelled for him, and they began a relationship. It didn't last long; two years

 

later, Valadon attempted suicide and the couple broke up. See The Laundress, which is one of the artist's depiction of

 

his mistress.

By this point, Lautrec's art was beginning to attract greater notice. In 1887, he participated in an exhibition in Toulouse,

 

where he assumed a false name, in order to distance himself from his father, the Count of Toulouse. In Paris, he

 

exhibited together with Van Gogh. He was invited to send some of his work to the les Vingt ("The Twenty") exhibition,

 

taking place early in 1888, in Brussels. At the same exhibition, two years later, Lautrec had a fierce argument with the

 

painter Henry de Groux over the inclusion of Van Gogh's work, and challenged the Belgian to a duel. The duel never took

 

place, but it shows the friendship Lautrec and Van Gogh shared. Van Gogh stayed with Lautrec in Paris, not long before

 

his suicide in 1890. See Toulouse-Lautrec's portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.

In 1889, Lautrec participated in the Salon des Independants for the first time. He would become a frequent contributor to

 

the Salon's exhibitions. He spent the summer on France's Atlantic coast, yachting. This year saw the opening of the

 

cabaret Moulin Rouge in the Montmartre; Lautrec immediately became a regular, and would often show his work at the

 

establishment. In modern popular culture, the name Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is inseparably linked to the Moulin Rouge,

 

and it is true that some of his most iconic work was made there, including his notorious Moulin Rouge poster of 1891 (La

 

Goulue), Valentin "the Boneless" Training the New Girls (1890), and others.

Though Lautrec is most famous for his depictions of Parisian night-life, he was a man of constantly-evolving interests,

 

both artistically and otherwise. Around 1893, moved away from the cabarets and took an interest in literature and

 

theater. He made his first engraving in 1891, and his later works include many lithographs, such as Les Ambassadeurs:

 

Aristide Bruant (1892), May Milton (1895), The Jockey (1899), and others. In 1893, he took part in an exhibition devoted

 

to painters and engravers. That year was important as well, because he had his first solo exhibition at the gallery of

 

Maurice Joyant. In this, he was part of a modern trend for the celebration of individual artistic achievement. Prior to the

 

late 19th Century, exhibitions had always been collective, featuring numerous artists.

Lautrec spent a lot of the time between 1894 and 1897 travelling. He visited London, Madrid and Toledo in Spain,

 

Brussels, Haarlem and Amsterdam. In England, the painter became acquainted with Whistler and Oscar Wilde, both of

 

whom he saw as role models -- the former for his art, the latter for his lifestyle. In Spain, he took inspiration from the old

 

masters: Velasquez, Goya and El Greco. In Holland, he studied Rembrandt, Bruegel and Hals. In Brussels, in 1895 and

 

again in 1897, he took part in exhibitions organized by the group La Libre Esthetique (The Free Aesthetic), the

 

successors to les Vingt, where his work was exhibited side-by-side with that of Cezanne, Signac, Gauguin and Van

 

Gogh.

His lifestyle, ever erratic, was becoming increasingly so as a result of his drinking, which was rapidly spiralling out of

 

control. In 1894, on a whim, he moved into one of the brothels he frequented and lived there for some time. Some works

 

painted from his experience there include Rue de Moulins (1894), Prostitutes Around a Dinner Table (1894), Two

 

Friends (1894-95), In 1896, at a private exhibition in the gallery of Joyant, he got into altercation with no less a

 

personage than the former King of Serbia, Milan Obrenovic, whom he called an ignorant "pig farmer". By this time, he

 

was descending into outright alcoholism. In 1897, he had an attack of delirium tremens, while on summer vacation at

 

Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. His artistic output decreased sharply, as most of his days were spent in various states of

 

intoxication. His health deteriorated sharply. In 1899, he was confined to a mental hospital, attracting jabs from the press.

He died on September 9th, 1901, at the age of 36, at one of his beloved mother's homes in Malrome. His last two

 

paintings were "Admiral Viaud" and "An Examination at the Faculty of Medicine".

 

Biography by Yuri Mataev

Bibliography:

Court Painter to the Wicked. The Life and Work of Toulouse-Lautrec by Jean Bouret. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. NY 1968

Toulouse_Lautrec. A Life. by Julia Frey Viking. 1994

Nightlife of Paris. The Art of Toulouse-Lautrec by Patrick O'Connor. Universe, NY.1991

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec by Herhard Gruitrooy. 1996.

Toulouse-Lautrec by Philippe Huisman and M.G. Dortu. Chartwell Books, Inc.1971

Toulouse-Lautrec His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints by Jean Adhemar. Harry N.Abrams, Inc. NY

Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works by Gotz Adriani. Thames & Hudson, 1988.

H. de Toulouse-Lautrec: One Hundred Ten Unpublished Drawings by Arthur William Heintzelman, Edouard Julien, M.

 

Roland O. Heintzelman. French & European Pubns, 1955.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau enjoyed a remarkable popularity in the United States, particularly during the late 1800s through the early 20th century. Lauded and laureled by the French artistic establishment, and a dominant presence at the Parisian Salons, Bouguereau’s canvases offered American collectors the chance to bring Gallic sophistication and worldly elegance to their own galleries and drawing rooms. The master’s idealized, polished images—of chastely sensual classical maidens, Raphaelesque Madonnas, and impossibly pristine peasant children—embodied the tastes of the American Victorian age, and of his Gilded Age patrons. Bouguereau canvases at one time were de rigueur for every collector and arts institution from the late 1860s to the early 1900s in America.

Maker: Adolphe Louis Donnadieu (1840–1911)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: photocollographie par MM Thvoz et Cie

Size: 6 1/2" x 9 3/4"

Location:

 

Object No. 2016.645l

Shelf: B-40

 

Publication: A. L. Donnadieu - Traite Photographie Stereoscopique, Theorie et Pratique,Atlas, 1892, Pl VI

 

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Lac Borne, Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard, Canada

Toulouse Lautrec Impressionist Painting Young Girl & Eros - Adolphe c.1882

Attributed to Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) After William Bouguereau

 

Approx: Size 47" tall x 35.25" wide (without the frame) - 62.75" tall x 51" wide (with Frame)

 

History

 

William Bouguereau was France's most popular painter of the late 1800s. A leader of the Academic School,

 

Bouguereau specialized in carefully detailed mythological and genre scenes, and was particularly noted for his tender

 

portrayals of children. "The Abduction of Psyche" (1895) is probably his best-known work. Today many critics dismiss

 

his style as kitsch and do not look kindly on his harmful opposition to new creative trends; but his exquisite craftsmanship

 

is undeniable. Bouguereau completed over 800 paintings, many of them life-sized. Adolphe William Bouguereau (he

 

never used his first name) was born in La Rochelle, France. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and won the Prix de

 

Rome in 1850. In 1868 he built a lavish studio in Montparnasse and helped make that area the foremost artists' quarter

 

in Paris. Around this time he also began a liason with one of his students, American painter Elizabeth Gardner;

 

Bouguereau's mother opposed the relationship and the couple did not marry until her death in 1896. As comparatively

 

obscure as he is these days, it's difficult to imagine what a star Bouguereau was in the art world of his era. He worked

 

hard to fufil his many commissions and his paintings were so sought after, and fetched such high prices, that he once

 

boasted, "I lose five francs every time I pee". Engraved reproductions of his works sold in the millions. Along with wealth

 

and fame came many honors, including election to the Institute of France and being named a Grand Officer of the Legion

 

of Honor. Reactionary in visual tastes, Bouguereau believed art should idealize beauty and turned up his nose at

 

anything that even remotely deviated from this dictum. As President of the Society of French Artists from 1881, he

 

oversaw the selection of the thousands of paintings shown annually at the Paris Salon, the only real avenue to success

 

for aspiring Gallic painters and sculptors. For decades he used this position to hinder the press and public from

 

discovering the revolutionary changes that were taking place in French painting, including Impressionism, Realism,

 

Pointillism, and the singular efforts of Paul Gaugin, Henri Rousseau, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Paul Cezanne, who

 

submitted canvases to that venue every year only to have them rejected, finally gave up and declared, "I don't stand a

 

chance in Monsieur Bouguereau's Salon". Rival salons sprang up in Paris to combat Bouguereau's conservatism, but he

 

remained powerful and influential until his death at 79. (bio by: Bobb Edwards)

 

In 1882, Lautrec moved from Albi to Paris, where he studied art in the ateliers of two academic painters, Léon Bonnat

 

(1833–1922) and Fernand Cormon (1845–1924), who also taught Émile Bernard (1868–1941) and Vincent van Gogh

 

(1853–1890). Lautrec soon began painting en plein air in the manner of the Impressionists, and often posed sitters in the

 

Montmartre garden of his neighbor, Père Forest, a retired photographer. One of his favorite models was a prostitute

 

nicknamed La Casque d'Or (Golden Helmet), seen in the painting The Streetwalker (2003.20.13). Lautrec used peinture

 

à l'essence, or oil thinned with turpentine, on cardboard, rendering visible his loose, sketchy brushwork. The

 

transposition of this creature of the night to the bright light of day—her pallid complexion and artificial hair color clash with

 

the naturalistic setting—signals Lautrec's fascination with sordid and dissolute subjects. Later in his career, he would

 

devote an entire series of prints, called Elles, to life inside a brothel (1984.1203.166).

 

The most notable painting from the Harris collection was the early Toulouse-Lautrec painting "La blanchisseuse" (1886-

 

87), a young laundress with copper-colored hair and a pearly white blouse. Its optimistic presale estimate of $20 million

 

to $25 million turned out to be justified, as the painting sold for $22.4 million to a phone bidder. The price was a record

 

for a work by the artist sold at auction, $6 million more than the previous highest price.

 

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) was a French artist of the late 19th Century, most closely associated with the

 

Symbolists, but with a unique, distinctive style of his own. His depictions of Parisian night life and society -- vivid, candid,

 

energetic and unflattering -- are instantly recognizable, and typify that place and period in the minds of many. The

 

painter's own life has become a legend that has inspired many romanticized interpretations.

Henri-Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa was born on November 24, 1864, in the town of Albi, in the south of

 

France. He was the first child and heir of Alphonse Charlers Jean Marie (1838-1913), Count of Toulouse, and his wife

 

Marie Marquette Zoe Adele Tapie de Celeyran (1841-1930). Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec was an avid

 

sportsman and hunter, with a penchant for flamboyant outfits. Marie de Celeyran, by contrast, was very reserved and shy,

 

and doted on her first child. Young Henri was probably first introduced to painting through his uncles, several of whom

 

were amateur artists. He received his first tutelage in art from Rene Princeteau, a well-known sports-painter and a friend

 

of his father's.

Much of Henri's early childhood was spent in the Chateau de Celeyran, his mother's familial home, near the

 

Mediterranean town of Narbonne, where he spent much time drawing and painting the life and landscape of the estate. In

 

1868, his parents separated; Henri would live mostly with his mother. In 1872, he was enrolled in the prestigious Lycee

 

Fontanes in Paris, but he left the school only three short years later, in 1875, due to health reasons. Together with his

 

mother, he moved back to the south of France, and its gentler climate.

In 1878, Henri broke his left thigh as he was getting up out of a chair. Bed-ridden, he spent his time reading, drawing and

 

painting. A year later and just barely recovered from his first injury, he broke his other thigh whilst taking a walk with his

 

mother. The growth of his legs was stunted forever, and he never grew taller than 5 feet. There is much speculation about

 

the causes of the painter's medical condition. From the evidence we have today, it is probable that he suffered from

 

brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta), a genetic disorder that prevents bones and connective tissues from

 

developing properly. Osteogenesis imperfecta was not uncommon among the European aristocracy, and this would

 

explain Henri's physical frailty and other symptoms. Be that as it may, his illness was never identified during his lifetime,

 

and nothing his mother and his doctors undertook would help.

Meanwhile, Henri continued to pursue art. By 1880, he had produced as many as two and a half thousand works, in a

 

variety of techniques. Encouraged by his uncle Charles and by Princeteau, he eventually managed to convince his

 

mother to allow him to return to Paris to study art. In 1881, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec set up residence in Princeteau's

 

Paris studio.

In 1882, the young artist was accepted into the studio of the famous painter and art teacher Leon Bonnat. However,

 

Bonnat took an immediate dislike to Toulouse-Lautrec, who, already then, had something of a caustic personality. The

 

two did not get along well, and after Bonnat became a professor at the Paris Academy of Art, Lautrec quit his studio and

 

began to study, instead, under Fernand Cormon. Cormon was a talented artist in his own right, and an enthusiastic

 

teacher, and his workshop attracted many young painters who would later be among the shapers of the art world.

  

Under Cormon, Toulouse-Lautrec explored many styles and techniques. He received a firm grounding in academic

 

painting, but Cormon also encouraged his students to explore Impressionism and contemporary directions in art. Two of

 

the painter's works from this period are the Artist's Mother (1883) and the Young Routy at Celeyran (1883).

In 1883, Lautrec had his first romantic liaison with Marie Charlet, a 17-year-old model. The painter would have many

 

affairs over the course of his rather brief life. All of them would be with women far below his station, and none of them

 

were very long-lasting. Although the artist immersed himself in the life of the lower classes -- the cabarets, the dance

 

halls and the brothels -- he always retained an aristocratic aloofness and a sense of his own superiority. He was not

 

attempting to become part of that life: he was rather an unprejudiced observer; a doctor or a scientist, trying to dissect it

 

and give it life, in his art.

Lautrec moved into the Montmartre district in 1884. Here, he met Edgar Degas, whom he came to admire. He soon

 

began to frequent the district's cabarets, including the Elysee-Montmartre, the Moulin de la Galette and the Mirliton, run

 

by Artistide Bruant, where he displayed his works. That year, he also had his first exhibition at the Pau.

In 1886, Lautrec met Vincent Van Gogh at Cormon's studio, where the Dutch painter had come to study. They quickly

 

became friends, though Lautrec left the studio only a few months later, his education there concluded. This was also the

 

year when he met Suzanne Valadon, who modelled for him, and they began a relationship. It didn't last long; two years

 

later, Valadon attempted suicide and the couple broke up. See The Laundress, which is one of the artist's depiction of

 

his mistress.

By this point, Lautrec's art was beginning to attract greater notice. In 1887, he participated in an exhibition in Toulouse,

 

where he assumed a false name, in order to distance himself from his father, the Count of Toulouse. In Paris, he

 

exhibited together with Van Gogh. He was invited to send some of his work to the les Vingt ("The Twenty") exhibition,

 

taking place early in 1888, in Brussels. At the same exhibition, two years later, Lautrec had a fierce argument with the

 

painter Henry de Groux over the inclusion of Van Gogh's work, and challenged the Belgian to a duel. The duel never took

 

place, but it shows the friendship Lautrec and Van Gogh shared. Van Gogh stayed with Lautrec in Paris, not long before

 

his suicide in 1890. See Toulouse-Lautrec's portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.

In 1889, Lautrec participated in the Salon des Independants for the first time. He would become a frequent contributor to

 

the Salon's exhibitions. He spent the summer on France's Atlantic coast, yachting. This year saw the opening of the

 

cabaret Moulin Rouge in the Montmartre; Lautrec immediately became a regular, and would often show his work at the

 

establishment. In modern popular culture, the name Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is inseparably linked to the Moulin Rouge,

 

and it is true that some of his most iconic work was made there, including his notorious Moulin Rouge poster of 1891 (La

 

Goulue), Valentin "the Boneless" Training the New Girls (1890), and others.

Though Lautrec is most famous for his depictions of Parisian night-life, he was a man of constantly-evolving interests,

 

both artistically and otherwise. Around 1893, moved away from the cabarets and took an interest in literature and

 

theater. He made his first engraving in 1891, and his later works include many lithographs, such as Les Ambassadeurs:

 

Aristide Bruant (1892), May Milton (1895), The Jockey (1899), and others. In 1893, he took part in an exhibition devoted

 

to painters and engravers. That year was important as well, because he had his first solo exhibition at the gallery of

 

Maurice Joyant. In this, he was part of a modern trend for the celebration of individual artistic achievement. Prior to the

 

late 19th Century, exhibitions had always been collective, featuring numerous artists.

Lautrec spent a lot of the time between 1894 and 1897 travelling. He visited London, Madrid and Toledo in Spain,

 

Brussels, Haarlem and Amsterdam. In England, the painter became acquainted with Whistler and Oscar Wilde, both of

 

whom he saw as role models -- the former for his art, the latter for his lifestyle. In Spain, he took inspiration from the old

 

masters: Velasquez, Goya and El Greco. In Holland, he studied Rembrandt, Bruegel and Hals. In Brussels, in 1895 and

 

again in 1897, he took part in exhibitions organized by the group La Libre Esthetique (The Free Aesthetic), the

 

successors to les Vingt, where his work was exhibited side-by-side with that of Cezanne, Signac, Gauguin and Van

 

Gogh.

His lifestyle, ever erratic, was becoming increasingly so as a result of his drinking, which was rapidly spiralling out of

 

control. In 1894, on a whim, he moved into one of the brothels he frequented and lived there for some time. Some works

 

painted from his experience there include Rue de Moulins (1894), Prostitutes Around a Dinner Table (1894), Two

 

Friends (1894-95), In 1896, at a private exhibition in the gallery of Joyant, he got into altercation with no less a

 

personage than the former King of Serbia, Milan Obrenovic, whom he called an ignorant "pig farmer". By this time, he

 

was descending into outright alcoholism. In 1897, he had an attack of delirium tremens, while on summer vacation at

 

Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. His artistic output decreased sharply, as most of his days were spent in various states of

 

intoxication. His health deteriorated sharply. In 1899, he was confined to a mental hospital, attracting jabs from the press.

He died on September 9th, 1901, at the age of 36, at one of his beloved mother's homes in Malrome. His last two

 

paintings were "Admiral Viaud" and "An Examination at the Faculty of Medicine".

 

Biography by Yuri Mataev

Bibliography:

Court Painter to the Wicked. The Life and Work of Toulouse-Lautrec by Jean Bouret. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. NY 1968

Toulouse_Lautrec. A Life. by Julia Frey Viking. 1994

Nightlife of Paris. The Art of Toulouse-Lautrec by Patrick O'Connor. Universe, NY.1991

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec by Herhard Gruitrooy. 1996.

Toulouse-Lautrec by Philippe Huisman and M.G. Dortu. Chartwell Books, Inc.1971

Toulouse-Lautrec His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints by Jean Adhemar. Harry N.Abrams, Inc. NY

Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works by Gotz Adriani. Thames & Hudson, 1988.

H. de Toulouse-Lautrec: One Hundred Ten Unpublished Drawings by Arthur William Heintzelman, Edouard Julien, M.

 

Roland O. Heintzelman. French & European Pubns, 1955.

Steel plate engraving of Jean-Paul Marat, physician, scientist and critical journalist - commentator on the Revolution.

Thier’s Consulate and Empire 1845.

The history of the French Consulate and Empire under Napoleon, written by Adolphe Thiers.

Thiers condensed history adapted from his original 16 Volume set, translated from the original French.

M.J.L. Adolphe Thiers ( 1797-1877) was a French politician and historian, and the first President of the Third Republic ( 1871-1873)..

Published by A. Fullarton, London (1845). 3 volumes, half leather binding.

 

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