Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011066Yvette Guilbert
About the Artwork
This drawing depicts Yvette Guilbert, a popular Parisian cabaret performer who was the subject of numerous prints, posters, drawings, and paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Here, Lautrec began to work out the composition of a poster that Guilbert commissioned from him to publicize her upcoming season at Les Ambassadeurs, a popular night club. A more finished study is part of the collection of the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi, France, but the poster itself was never realized after Guilbert rejected the design as unflattering.
Inscriptions
signed, in black crayon, at upper right: TLautrec; initialed (monogram), in black crayon at right center.
Provenance
?-?: Mr. Cornelius Sullivan, New York ?-1950: Leonard C. Hanna, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 1950-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). The Artist and the Theater. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 5-September 12, 1960). Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)
- Date
- c. 1894
- Medium
- black crayon
- Dimensions
- Framed: 135.2 x 73 cm (53 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
- Accession no.
- 1950.455
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