Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002402Mademoiselle Cocyle as Helen of Troy in La Belle Helene
Provenance
Sold by Imberti Gallery, Bordeaux, to Gustave Fayet (1865-1925), Carcassonne, France, May 1905 [according to Fondation Louis Vuitton email dated June 10, 2024]. Heim, Munich; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 30, 1913, Heim sale, lot 12, as "Café Concert," to Eugène Blot [Dortu 1971]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 2, 1933, Blot sale, lot 22, to Bergaud, Paris [Dortu 1971]. Duhem [Joachim 1978]. Private Collection, France [invoice]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1965.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 156-57, cat. 77 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 77 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 162-63, cat. 78 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec," October 4-December 2, 1979, checklist 88. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 170-71, cat. 78 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to St. Louis Museum of Art, 1986. London, Hayward Gallery, "Toulouse-Lautrec," October 10, 1991-January 19, 1992, cat. 166. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat. Vienna, Albertina, "Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings", February 9 - May 13, 2012, p. 290 pl. 180, cat. by Christopher Lloyd.
Publications
Gustave Coquiot, Toulouse-Lautrec (Berlin, 1923), p. 35 (ill.). Maurice Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, II (Paris, 1927), p. 143 (ill.). Gotthard Jedlicka, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Berlin, 1929), p. 133 (ill.). "Les ventes: ce qu'on a rendu," Gazette des Beaux Arts (June 9, 1933). Mack Gerstle, Toulouse-Lautrec (New York, 1942), p. 214. Pierre Lavallée, Le dessin Français (Paris, 1948), pl. LIX (ill.). M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec (Paris, 1952), p. 10 (ill.). Carl Georg Heise, Grosse Zeichner des XIX Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1959), no. 117 (ill.). Gotthard Jedlicka, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (New York, 1961), p. 68 (ill.). M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre VI (New York, 1971), no. D.4.642 (ill.). Herold Joachim, “Trois siècles de portraits dessinés à l’Art Institute de Chicago,” L’Oeil, 255 (October 1976), p. 7, no. 4 (ill.) Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 6A8
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / French, 1864-1901
- Date
- 1900
- Medium
- Graphite and red chalk, with touches of black crayon, heightened with traces of white chalk, on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 35.1 × 25.4 cm (13 7/8 × 10 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
- Accession no.
- 1965.146
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