Yvette Guilbert by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)

Medium

black crayon

Dimensions

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Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings

Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art

Credit

Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.

Accession Number

1950.455

Tags

male

About this artwork

This drawing depicts Yvette Guilbert, a popular Parisian cabaret performer who was the subject of numerous prints, posters, drawings, and paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Here, Lautrec began to work out the composition of a poster that Guilbert commissioned from him to publicize her upcoming season at Les Ambassadeurs, a popular night club. A more finished study is part of the collection of the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi, France, but the poster itself was never realized after Guilbert...

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