
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003137Sketchbook, 1880
Provenance
Estate of the artist, from 1901 [a letter from Cesar de Hauke dated March 17, 1949 in curatorial file; estate stamp]. Hector Brame (1866-1936), Paris [Dortu 1971]. Sold by Cesar de Hauke, New York, to the Art Institute, 1949.
Exhibition history
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters, and Lithographs," March 20-May 6, 1956, p. 46, cat. 45. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 118.
Publications
Carl Schniewind, The Art Institute Presents Toulouse-Lautrec (Chicago, 1949), pp. 4, 10, 11. Carl Schniewind, A Toulouse-Lautrec Sketchbook (New York, 1952). "Toulouse-Lautrec's Juvenilia," The Times Literary Supplement (March 27, 1953), p. 200. Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings (New York, 1954), no. 52 (ill.). F. Novotny, Toulouse-Lautrec (London, 1969), p. 14. M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son Oeuvre, V (New York, 1971), pp. 304-317, nos. D.1.820-D.1.905 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), pp. 106-119, no. 6A9-7A10. Toulouse-Lautrec (New Haven, Conn., 1991), p. 82. Gale Murray, Toulouse-Lautrec: A Retrospective (New York, 1992), p. 53. Clint Brown and Cheryl McLean, Drawing from Life (Fort Worth, Tex.), p. 14 (ill.). Gene Mittler, Creating and Understanding Drawings (New York, 2000). Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J., 1999), p. 11, fig. 1.11.
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
- 1880
- Medium
- Sketchbook of drawings containing 47 leaves including both end sheets by the artist. The media are pencil, black grease crayon and occasionally pen and ink and watercolor. Drawings on both sides of each leaf except 7
- Dimensions
- 15.9 × 25.7 cm (6 5/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- sketchbook
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Robert Alexander Waller Memorial Fund
- Accession no.
- 1949.80
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