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Monsieur Boileau at the Café

1893

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

(French, 1864-1901)

France, 19th century

Gouache

Sheet: 80 x 65 cm (31 1/2 x 25 9/16 in.); Framed: 105.4 x 89.5 x 8.3 cm (41 1/2 x 35 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)

Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 394.1925

Location

not on view

Description

The sitter, perhaps a certain Mr. Bolleau, must have been a friend of Lautrec, who dedicated this work to him at the upper left. He may have been the iron merchant-heavy set and wearing a bowler hat-who also appears in a line drawing by the artist. This drawing, the first by the artist to enter an American museum collection, is a prime example of Lautrec's ability to capture the atmosphere of Paris café life.

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed upper left: à mon ami Boileau/HTLautrec [HTL in monogram]

Provenance

Baron Lafaurie, Paris; Paul Rosenberg, Paris; Wildenstein & Co., NY

Wildenstein & Co., NY

Paul Rosenberg, Paris

Baron Lafaurie, Paris

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 40 archive.org

Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. Reproduced: p. 37 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 510 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 179 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 179 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 222 archive.org

Bos, Eric. Absinthe, het grote kwaad: de groene fee als inspiratiebron van de kunsten. Groningen : Boekwerk & partners, 2016. Reproduced: p. 9

Exhibition history

Paris, Exposition des Indépendants (1893), no. 1246.

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Exposition Toulouse Lautrec (1914), no. 33.

Paris, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Exposition rétrospective de l'oeuvre de Toulouse-Lautrec (1914), no. 33.

Paris, Paul Rosenberg & Co., Mutilés de la guerre (1917), no. 94.

Paris, Paul Rosenberg & Co., Les Oeuvres des grands maîtres du XIX siècle (1922), no. 94.

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Exposition H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, au profit de la Société des Amis du Musée d'Albi (1931), no. 98.

New York, Knoedler & Co., Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters (1937), no. 14, illus.

New London, Conn., Lyman Allyn Museum, Exhibition of XIX and XX Century Painting (1939).

Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of French Impressionists from Manet to Cézanne (1940).

New York, Wildenstein & Co., A Loan Exhibition of Toulouse-Lautrec (1946), no. 22, illus. p. 35.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1947), no. 16, repr. opp. p. 12.

Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Toulouse-Lautrec exposition en l'honneur du cinquantième anniversaire de sa mort (1951), no. 42, pl. V.

Philadelphia Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago, Toulouse-Lautrec Exhibition Organized in Collaboration with the Albi Museum (1956), no. 39, illus.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Toulouse-Lautrec;: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs (1956), no. 25, illus. p. 17.

New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., Masterpieces Recalled: Benefit for League for Emotionally Disturbed Children (1957), no. 33, illus.

Albi, Palais de la Berbie; Paris, Petit Palais, Centenaire de Toulouse-Lautrec (1964), no. 43, illus. opp. p. 57.

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; New York, Museum of Modem Art, Modern Masters (1975).

The Cleveland Museum of Art (8/27/00 - 10/17/00); NY, NY: The Pierpont Morgan Library (5/24/01- 8/19/01); Museum of Fine Arts Houston (10/14/01 - 1/6/02); "Master Drawings from The Cleveland Museum of Art"

London, Hayward Gallery; Paris, Grand Palais, Toulouse-Lautrec (1991-92), no. 35, pp. 18, 23, 133, illus.

French Art Since Eighteen Hundred. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8-December 8, 1929).

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942).

19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943).

Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000).

Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre. The Art Institute of Chicago (July 16-October 10, 2005).

Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).

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Monsieur Boileau at the Café

Monsieur Boileau at the Café

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

France, 19th century

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