Monsieur Boileau at the Café
1893
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)
Drawings
Monsieur Boileau at the Café, 1893. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901). Oil and tempera with charcoal on millboard; sheet: 80.3 x 65 cm (31 5/8 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1925.1409 The green drink on the table is probably absinthe, a popular drink with artists at the time that was thought to have hallucinogenic properties.
- Maker/Artist
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- oil and tempera with charcoal on millboard
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 80.3 x 65 cm (31 5/8 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.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: inscribed, upper left, in gouache: à mon ami Boileau / HTLautrec [HTL in monogram]
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1925.1409
- Credit Line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Exhibitions
- French Art Since Eighteen Hundred, Exposition H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, au profit de la Société des Amis du Musée d'Albi, Independent Painters of Nineteenth-Century Paris, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters, Exhibition of French Impressionists from Manet to Cézanne, The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections, 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans, A Loan Exhibition of Toulouse-Lautrec, Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Toulouse-Lautrec exposition en l'honneur du cinquantième anniversaire de sa mort, Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs, Masterpieces Recalled: Benefit for League for Emotionally Disturbed Children, Toulouse-Lautrec, Centenaire de Toulouse-Lautrec, Modern Masters: Manet to Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>Exposition des Indépendants, </em>Paris, France (March 18 - April 27, 1893)., <em>Exposition Toulouse Lautrec.</em> Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY (1914)., <em>Exposition rétrospective de l'oeuvre de Toulouse-Lautrec. </em>Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, France (1914)., <em>Les Oeuvres des grands maîtres du XIX siècle. </em>Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paris, France (1922)., <em>Paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec</em>. Art Institute of Chicago, organized by Arts Club of Chicago (December 23, 1924 - January 25, 1925), <em>Toulouse-Lautrec: Exhibition Organized in Collaboration with the Albi Museum</em>. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (October 29 - December 11, 1955); Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL (January 2 - February 15, 1956).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 101A Prints & Drawings
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