Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003139May Milton
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower left, in blue pastel: "T-Lautrec"
Provenance
Sold by Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, October 1926 [invoice]; bequeathed by his wife, Kate Brewster (c.1879-1947) to the Art Institute, 1949.
Exhibition history
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Lautrec, Redon," 1931, p. 4, cat. 24. The Art Institute of Chicago, September 9, 1988-August 12, 1989. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago, "Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre," p. 59, cat. 64 (ill.); shown in Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, March 20-June 12, 2005, and The Art Institute of Chicago, July 16-October 10, 2005.
Publications
Frank Getlein, "The Artist Looks at People: Portrait Show at The Art Institute of Chicago," Art In America XLVI (Winter 1958–59), pp. 65–66 (ill.). Reinhold Heller, “Rediscovering Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s ‘At the Moulin Rouge,’” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 12:2 (1986), pp. 115-135 (ill.). Diane Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism (New York, 1997).
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
- 1895
- Medium
- Oil and pastel on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 66.1 × 49.4 cm (26 1/16 × 19 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Kate L. Brewster
- Accession no.
- 1949.263
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