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Source Description
This drawing depicts Yvette Guilbert, a popular Parisian cabaret performer who was the subject of numerous prints, posters, drawings, and paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Here, Lautrec began to work out the composition of a poster that Guilbert commissioned from him to publicize her upcoming season at Les Ambassadeurs, a popular night club. A more finished study is part of the collection of the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi, France, but the poster itself was never realized after Guilbert rejected the design as unflattering.
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Document identity
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127812
label
Yvette Guilbert
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
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127812
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drawing
title
Yvette Guilbert
description
This drawing depicts Yvette Guilbert, a popular Parisian cabaret performer who was the subject of numerous prints, posters, drawings, and paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Here, Lautrec began to work out the composition of a poster that Guilbert commissioned from him to publicize her upcoming season at Les Ambassadeurs, a popular night club. A more finished study is part of the collection of the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi, France, but the poster itself was never realized after Guilbert rejected the design as unflattering.
date
c. 1894
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79908106
creators
1856
genreSpecific
Drawing
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Framed: 135.2 x 73 cm (53 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
1950.455
Source extras
tec
black crayon
tombstone
Yvette Guilbert, c. 1894. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901). Black crayon; framed: 135.2 x 73 cm (53 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., 1950.455
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
signed, in black crayon, at upper right: TLautrec; initialed (monogram), in black crayon at right center.
didYouKnow
Yvette Guilbert's cabaret act was centered on the distinctive long black gloves that she wore during performances.
citations
citation
"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April - June 1953." <em>Art Quarterly</em> 16, no. 4 (Winter 1953): 346-365.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 353
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: no. 604
citation
Milliken, William. <em>In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: no. 131
citation
Dortu, M. G. <em>Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre</em>. New York: Collectors Editions, 1971.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 604, D.e.639; Reproduced: p. 605
citation
<em>Toulouse-Lautrec</em>. Exh. Cat. London: Hayward Gallery, 1991.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 328
citation
Frangne, Pierre-Henry, and Patricia Plaud-Dilhuit. Gustave Geffroy au coeur de la vie artistique francaise 1880-1926. <br>Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes , 2024.
page_number
Reproduced: plate II of color plate section
catalogueRaisonne
Dortu D.3.639
creditline
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
updatedAt
2026-05-29 06:34:57.680000
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127812
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Drawings
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DR - French
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black crayon
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male
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0
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photo
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