About this artwork
In November 1896 Lautrec visited Château de Blois with friends, where they discussed Marie de Medici, the 17th-century French queen who was exiled to Blois by her son Louis XIII before later making a daring night escape. This tale inspired Lautrec’s menu, in which his friends masquerade as Marie and her rescuer. A puzzling crocodile and a bespectacled ghostly apparition also appear, only heightening the scene’s mystery. In a rare act of self-portraiture, Lautrec observes from below.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Title
- Le crocodile, Menu
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1896
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Medium
- Lithograph on cream wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 32.3 × 22.3 cm (12 3/4 × 8 13/16 in.); Sheet: 56.1 × 38.2 cm (22 1/8 × 15 1/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Charles F. Glore Collection
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Reference Number
- 1927.903
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/35783/manifest.json