Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-1901

Jane Avril, 1893

Lithograph in olive green, yellow, orange, red and black, on cream wove paper
1,240 x 915 mm (image); 1,290 x 940 mm (sheet)
Signed on stone, lower center, in image: "T-Lautrec" and "83"; signed on stone, lower left, in image: "T-L" (artist's monogram in circle); inscribed on stone, upper center, in image: "Jane Avril"; inscribed on stone, lower left, below image: "IMP.CHAIX.20.Rue BergérePARIS-ENCRES LORILLEUX"; inscribed on stone, lower center, in image: "Depot Chez Kleinmann / 8, Rue de la Victoire"
Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection, 1949.1004

Wittrock p6; Adhémar 12; Bodelsen p. 9; Delteil 345 II

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec," October 4-December 2, 1979, checklist 62.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago, Toulouse-Lautrec and Monmartre, 2005, p. 166, fig. 175; 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.

Publication History

Loys Deteil, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec (Paris, 1920), n.p., no. 345 (ill.).

Merete Bodelsen, Toulouse-Lautrec's Posters: Catalogue and Comments (Copenhagen, 1964), p. 9 (ill.).

Jean Adhémar, Toulouse-Lautrec: His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints (New York, 1965), n.p., pl. 12.

Wolfgang Wittrock,Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Prints, edited and translated by Catherine E. Kuehn II (London, 1985), pp. 766-767, no. p6 (ill.).

Ownership History

Given by Carter H. Harrison (1860-1953), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1949.