Mademoiselle Cocyle as Helen of Troy in La Belle Helene

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Prints and Drawings

1900

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-1901

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Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Title: Mademoiselle Cocyle as Helen of Troy in La Belle Helene
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1900
Medium: Graphite and red chalk, with touches of black crayon, heightened with traces of white chalk, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 35.1 × 25.4 cm (13 7/8 × 10 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Reference Number: 1965.146
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Gustave Coquiot, Toulouse-Lautrec (Berlin, 1923), p. 35 (ill.).
Maurice Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, II
(Paris, 1927), p. 143 (ill.).
Gotthard Jedlicka, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Berlin, 1929), p. 133 (ill.).
“Les ventes: ce qu’on a rendu,” Gazette des Beaux Arts (June 9, 1933).
Mack Gerstle, Toulouse-Lautrec (New York, 1942), p. 214.
Pierre Lavallée, Le dessin Français (Paris, 1948), pl. LIX (ill.).
M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec (Paris, 1952), p. 10 (ill.).
Carl Georg Heise, Grosse Zeichner des XIX Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1959), no. 117 (ill.).
Gotthard Jedlicka, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (New York, 1961), p. 68 (ill.).
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre VI (New York, 1971), no. D.4.642 (ill.).
Herold Joachim, “Trois siècles de portraits dessinés à l’Art Institute de Chicago,” L’Oeil, 255 (October 1976), p. 7, no. 4 (ill.)
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 6A8

The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings,” 1974, pp. 156-57, cat. 77 (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. 77 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, “Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago,” February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 162-63, cat. 78 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec,” October 4-December 2, 1979, checklist 88.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983,” July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 170-71, cat. 78 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to St. Louis Museum of Art, 1986.
London, Hayward Gallery, “Toulouse-Lautrec,” October 10, 1991-January 19, 1992, cat. 166.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present,” September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
Vienna, Albertina, “Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings”, February 9 - May 13, 2012, p. 290 pl. 180, cat. by Christopher Lloyd.

Sold by Imberti Gallery, Bordeaux, to Gustave Fayet (1865-1925), Carcassonne, France, May 1905 [according to Fondation Louis Vuitton email dated June 10, 2024]. Heim, Munich; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 30, 1913, Heim sale, lot 12, as “Café Concert,” to Eugène Blot [Dortu 1971]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 2, 1933, Blot sale, lot 22, to Bergaud, Paris [Dortu 1971]. Duhem [Joachim 1978]. Private Collection, France [invoice]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1965.

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