At the Concert
1896, printed 1946
Medium
Zincograph in brownish olive-green on grayish-ivory laid chine
Dimensions
Image: 30.3 × 24.8 cm (11 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.); Sheet: 41.8 × 32.1 cm (16 1/2 × 12 11/16 in.)
Classification
zincograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
147145
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Lautrec also produced a number of striking images of identifiable audience members putting themselves on display in their loges, or theater boxes. This seemingly incomplete impression comes from one plate of a multicolor zincograph. It shows the unlikely pairing of the courtesan Emilienne d’Alençon with Lautrec’s cousin, the doctor Gabriel Tapié de Céleyran at the Cabaret des Décadents. The zinc plates are all now at the Art Institute of Chicago, where this impression was printed.
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1864–1901
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (1864-1901) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, printmaker, and illustrator whose innovative poster designs revolutionized graphic art and advertising in late 19th-century Paris. Born into an aristocratic family at Albi in southern France, Toulouse-Lautrec's privileged lineage traced back to the Counts of Toulouse and extended uninterrupted to th...