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    Moulin de la Galette
    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Moulin de la Galette, 1889. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000667

    Moulin de la Galette

    by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower left: HT Lautrec

    Provenance

    Joseph Albert. Mme Montandon, Paris, by February 1890. Paul Gallimard, Paris. Paul Rosenberg by 1924 [see Chicago 1924/5]; Annie Swan Coburn (Mrs. Lewis L. Coburn), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Exposition des Indépendants, 1889, cat. 257. Brussels, Salon des XX, 1890. Paris, Salon des Arts Libéraux, 1891. Paris, Galerie Goupil, Exposition, 1893. Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1902, cat. 71, as Le Bal du Moulin de la Galette. Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs,Peintures et Lithographies originales de H. de Toulouse Lautrec 1864-1901, January 24-February 20, cat. 2. Paris, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Exposition Retrospective de l’oeuvre de H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, June 15-July 11, 1914, p. 15 cat. 76 as Au Moulin de la Galette. Chicago, Art Institute, Arts Club, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, December 23, 1924-January 25, 1925, cat. 6 as Moulin de la Galette. Chicago, Art Institute, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Posters by Toulouse-Lautrec, December 23, 1930-January 18, 1931, pp. 16, 62 cat. 9 (ill.) as A Dance at the Moulin de la Galette, 1889. Chicago, Art Institute, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings & Water Colors, April 6-October 9, 1932, pp. 6, 8, 24 cat. 37 as A Dance at the Moulin de la Galette, 1889. Chicago, Art Institute, Catalogue of A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Lent from American Collections, June 1-November 1, 1933, p. 53 cat. 372 as A Dance at the Moulin de la Galette, 1889. Chicago, Art Institute, Catalogue of A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, p. 50 cat. 327 as A Dance at the Moulin de la Galette, 1889. St. Louis, City Art Museum, Toulouse-Lautrec, December 1934. Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Art Gallery, Toulouse-Lautrec, January-March 1939. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, March 6-April 20, 1947, p. 13 cat. 14 (ill.) as Dance at the Moulin de la Galette, 1889. Kansas City, Nelson Gallery of Art, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, December 11-31, 1953), cat. 7. Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Toulouse-Lautrec [exhibition organized in collaboration with the Albi Museum], October 29-December 11, 1955, cat. 15 (ill.) as At the Moulin de la Galette, 1889; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, January 2-February 15, 1956. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs, March 20-May 6, 1956, pp. 4, 10, 45 cat. 12 (ill.) as At the Moulin de la Galette, 1888. Paris, Palais du Louvre, Toulouse-Lautrec Exhibition, September 1964-January 1965, cat. 28. Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Celebration: Inaugural Exhibition of the Sarah Scaife Gallery of the Museum of Art, October 26, 1974-January 5, 1975, n.p. cat. 15 as Moulin de la Galette, 1889. Chicago, Art Institute, Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings (October 4-December 2, 1979), pp. 142-146 cat. 38 (ill.) as Au bal du Moulin de la Galette/The dance hall at the Moulin de la Galette, 1889. Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors Iimpressionistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27-August 31, 1980, pp. 21, 69 cat. 39 (ill.) as Le Moulin de la Galette, 1889. Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism, January 23-March 22, 1981, pp. 338, 339 cat. 121 (ill.) as The Ball at the Moulin de la Galette, 1889; traveled to Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, April 9-June 14, 1981. Leningrad [St. Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago], March 15-May 19, 1988, cat. 39; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988. London, Hayward Gallery, Toulouse-Lautrec, October 10, 1991-January 19, 1992, cat. 64 as Bal du Moulin de la Galette/At the Moulin de la Galette dance-hall; Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, February 18-June 1, 1992. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, March 20-June 12, 2005, pp. 110, 113, 118, 256 fig. 126 (ill.) as Moulin de la Galette, 1889; traveled to Chicago, Art Chicago, July 16-October 10, 2005. Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 61 (ill.). Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Splendour and Misery, Images of prostitution in France, 1850-1910 September 21, 2015-June 19, 2016; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, same exhibition but title " Easy Virtue. Prostitution in French Art, 1850-1910, February 19, 2016-June 19, 2016. São Paulo, Brazil, MASP, Toulouse-Lautrec em Vermelho [in Red], June 30-Oct. 1, 2017, cat. 130 (ill.). Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, October 9, 2019 – January 27, 2020, cat. 87. Charlottenlund, Denmark, Ordrupgaard, Café Society: Art and Sociability in Belle Époque Paris, 1855–1914, Feb. 6, 2026–May 31, 2026; Memphis, TN, Dixon Gallery, June 18–Sep. 6, 2026; Omaha, NE, Joslyn Art Museum,Sep. 26, 2026–Jan. 17, 2027 [Charlottenlund only].

    Publications

    M. G. Dortu, "Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre." (New York, 1971, no. 335). Dominique Jarrassé, "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa: Entre le mythe et la modernité." Paris, Philippe Sers, 1991, plate 18 (color). Gale B. Murray, "Toulouse-Lautrec: The Formative Years, 1878-92." Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991, fig. 109 (color). Gale B. Murray, "Toulouse-Lautrec: A Retrospective." (New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1992), illustrated in color p. 95. The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 61, pp. 130-31 (ill.). Musée d'Orsay, Splendeurs & misères, Images de la prostitution, 1850-1910, publisher Flammarion, Paris (Septembre 2015). Cette exposition a étè organisée par le musée d'Orsay, Paris et le Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, front cover detail, [232] p.249: Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge (1928.610), [61] p.109:Toulouse-Lautrec, Moulin de la Galette (1933.458), and [100] p. 138-139 Courbet, Mérè Grégoire (1930.78). Van Gogh Museum in Collaboration with Musée d'Orsay, Easy Virtue. Prostitution in French Art, 1850-1910 (2016) p. 43 - Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin de la Galette (1933.458) [24] , p. 94 - Courbet, Mèré Grégoire (1930.78) [75]. Pedrosa, Adriano and Luciano Migliaccio. Toulouse-Lautrec em Vermelho [in Red], exh. cat. (Museu de Arte de São Paulo, 2017), p. 35, 43, 134, img. 66 [130], 136-137, 144-145. Stéphane Guégan, Toulouse-Lautrec: Résolument modern, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée d’Orsay; RMN – Grand Palaise, 2019), 110-110 cat. 87, 330. Paul Perrin et. al., eds., Renoir and Love, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée d'Orsay; London: National Gallery Global; Boston: MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, 2026), 46–47, fig. 12.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)
    Date
    1889
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    88.5 × 101.3 cm (35 7/8 × 39 5/8 in.); Framed: 109.3 × 123.2 × 12.1 cm (43 × 48 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    Post-Impressionism
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1933.458

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