About This Artwork

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-1901

At the Door, 1885

Blue crayon and brush and black and gray wash, with touches of orange crayon, heightened with touches of white oil paint, on tan wove card
470 x 235 mm
Restricted gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation, 1965.22

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 152-53, cat. 75 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.

Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 75 (ill.).

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 158-59, cat. 76 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec," October 4-December 2, 1979, checklist 78.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.

Publication History

Maurice Joyant, Dessins de Maîtres Français, IX: Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (Paris, 1930), no. 18 (ill.).

M. G. Dortu, Toulouse Lautrec et son œuvre (New York, 1971), p. 472, no. D.2.899 (ill.).

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 5G7.

Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Julietta Scharf, "Die Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg in Berlin," in Die Moderne und Ihre Sammler: Französische Kunst in Deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Reublik (Berlin, 2001), p. 183.

Ownership History

Colonel Wild [Joyant 1930]. Eugène Mutiaux (died 1925), Paris [Joyant 1930]. Otto Gerstenberg (1848-1935), Berlin [Gaehtgens and Scharf, 2001]; by descent to his daughter, Margarethe Scharf (died 1961); by descent to her son, Walter Scharf (died 1996) [Chicago 1974]. Sold by Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich, to the Art Institute, 1965.