Portret van acteur Antoine en Mademoiselle Saville in toneelstuk L'Inquiétude in het Théâtre Libre

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collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Art Historical Context

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec *Portret van acteur Antoine Mademoiselle Saville inelstuk L'Inqui in het Théâtre Libre*1894) captures a vivid moment from Paris's avant-garde theater scene The lithograph depicts actors André Antoine—the innovative founder of the Théâtre Libre—and Mademoiselle Saville in theist play *L'Inétude*. This intimate 372 × 263 mm print reflects Lautrec's fascination with the bohem underbelly of fin-de-siècle Montmartre, where theater boundaries against traditional melodrama. Lautrec, a Post-Impressionist master of lithography, elevated the medium from commercial posters to f...

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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...