Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005781Old Woman
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, in charcoal: "HTL"; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "W.C.A.–1800"
Provenance
Mme Béatrice Bretty (née Anne-Marie Bolchiesi; 1893–1982), Paris. Knoedler Gallery, New York. Bénézit, Paris. Fernand C. Graindorge (1903–1985), Liège, Belgium [all provenance Dortu 1971]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, October 25, 1950, lot 86, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.
Exhibition history
Wellesley College Art Museum, 1986. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings," June 11–September 7, 1999 checklist 54. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 118, cat. 81 (ill.).
Publications
Maurice Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, dessins, estampes, affiches II (Paris, 1927), p. 281. London News (June 21, 1958) (ill.). M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre V (New York, 1971), pp. 316–17, no. D1.906 (ill).
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
- 1882
- Medium
- Charcoal, with black chalk, stumping, and erasing, heightened with white chalk, on brown laid paper with blue fibers
- Dimensions
- 50.8 × 36.6 cm (20 × 14 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1998.700
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