Moulin Rouge, La Goulue

Prints and Drawings

1891

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-1901

Moulin Rouge, La Goulue was Toulouse-Lautrec’s first commissioned poster, created to advertise the performance of dancer La Goulue and acrobat Valentin le Desossé at the iconic Montmartre dance hall. With thousands of copies pasted around Paris, the poster was an instant success, propelling Toulouse-Lautrec into the artistic limelight and attracting numerous commissions from other performers and cabaret owners. In this image, Toulouse-Lautreccaptured the exhilarating experience of being onstage, but he also designed a composition that traps La Goulue in her spectacle: between the bright yellow stage lights, the anonymous silhouetted crowd, and the provocatively posed Valentin.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Title: Moulin Rouge, La Goulue
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.: 1891
Medium: Color lithograph on tan wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 189 × 115.7 cm (74 7/16 × 45 9/16 in.); Sheet, sight: 191 × 117 cm (75 1/4 × 46 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
Reference Number: 1954.1193
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