May Milton

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1895

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-1901

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Title: May Milton
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.: 1895
Medium: Oil and pastel on cardboard
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in blue pastel: "T-Lautrec"
Dimensions: 66.1 × 49.4 cm (26 1/16 × 19 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Kate L. Brewster
Reference Number: 1949.263
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Frank Getlein, “The Artist Looks at People: Portrait Show at The Art Institute of Chicago,” Art In America XLVI (Winter 1958–59), pp. 65–66 (ill.).
Reinhold Heller, “Rediscovering Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s ‘At the Moulin Rouge,’” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 12:2 (1986), pp. 115-135 (ill.).
Diane Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism (New York, 1997).

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, “Lautrec, Redon,” 1931, p. 4, cat. 24.
The Art Institute of Chicago, September 9, 1988-August 12, 1989.
Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago, “Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre,” p. 59, cat. 64 (ill.); 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.

Sold by Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, October 1926 [invoice]; bequeathed by his wife, Kate Brewster (c.1879-1947) to the Art Institute, 1949.

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