About This Artwork

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-1901

Bar of the Café of the rue de Rome, c. 1886

Charcoal, heightened with white chalk, with stumping and erasing, on blue wove paper
344 x 462 mm
Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection, 1933.879

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Birmingham, Ala., Birmingham Museum of Art, "Exhibition of French Drawings (Le Fin du Siècle)," October 5–November 1, 1952.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec," October 4-December 2, 1979, checklist 77.

Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario "Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism," Janury 24-March 22, 1981, pp. 324-325, cat. 113 (ill.), cat. by Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov; traveled to Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, April 9-June 14, 1981.

Ownership History

Possibly E. Kleinmann, Paris. Rene Grenier, Paris. Henri Cottereau, Paris. Carter H. Harrison (1860-1953), Chicago, by 1931 [New York 1931]; given to the Art Institute, 1933