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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec produced this drawing to illustrate an article about Parisian summers. It presents the type of poorly paid worker who remained in the city while others traveled to escape the urban heat. Because the image was to be reproduced in black and white, Toulouse-Lautrec thinned and brushed ink, scraping into it to expose fine white highlights. Like several artworks in Cleveland’s collection, the drawing was formerly owned by Roger Marx, a French collector, curator, and art critic who built perhaps the most substantial holdings of Toulouse-Lautrec’s work around the turn of the century.
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Document identity
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129221
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The Laundress
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drawing
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129221
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drawing
title
The Laundress
description
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec produced this drawing to illustrate an article about Parisian summers. It presents the type of poorly paid worker who remained in the city while others traveled to escape the urban heat. Because the image was to be reproduced in black and white, Toulouse-Lautrec thinned and brushed ink, scraping into it to expose fine white highlights. Like several artworks in Cleveland’s collection, the drawing was formerly owned by Roger Marx, a French collector, curator, and art critic who built perhaps the most substantial holdings of Toulouse-Lautrec’s work around the turn of the century.
date
1888
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60780947
creators
1856
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Drawing
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 75.9 x 63.1 cm (29 7/8 x 24 13/16 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
1952.113
Source extras
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black and gray wash with white paint, scratched away in places, on gray cardboard prepared with white ground
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The Laundress, 1888. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901). Black and gray wash with white paint, scratched away in places, on gray cardboard prepared with white ground; sheet: 75.9 x 63.1 cm (29 7/8 x 24 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1952.113
supportMaterials
description
gray cardboard prepared with a white ground
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
signed, lower right, in brush and ink and black crayon: T-Lautrec; inscribed, on verso, upper center, in graphite: M
didYouKnow
To create this drawing, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted a board white and then both scraped the material away in areas and drew with black ink to create a variety of tones throughout the image.
citations
citation
Michelet, Émile. “L’Été à Paris.” <em>Paris illustré</em> 6 (1888).
page_number
Reproduced: p. 425
citation
<em>Catalogue des tableaux, pastels, dessins, aquarelles </em>[. . .] <em>faisant partie de la collection Roger Marx</em>. Paris: Galerie Manzi-Joyant, 1914.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 105, no. 222; Reproduced: n.p.
url
bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/idviewer/22422/122
citation
Astre, Achille. <em>H. de Toulouse-Lautrec</em>. Paris: Nilsson, 1926.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 96
citation
Joyant, Maurice. <em>Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1964–1901: Dessins, estampes, affiches</em>. Paris: H. Floury, 1927.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 191, 279; Reproduced: p. 17
citation
Mack, Gerstle. <em>Toulouse-Lautrec</em>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 293
citation
Francis, Henry S. "La Blanchisseuse by Toulouse-Lautrec." <em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 40, no. 3 (March 1953): 51-53.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 51-53
citation
Neugass, Fritz. "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec und der Kunstmarkt." <em>Weltkunst</em> 34 (March 1953): 139.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 139
citation
<em>Toulouse-Lautrec: Exhibition Organized in Collaboration with the Albi Museum</em>. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1955.
page_number
Reproduced: no. 85
citation
<em>Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs</em>. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1956.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 46, no. 51
citation
Perruchot, Henri. <em>La vie de Toulouse-Lautrec</em>. Paris: Hachette, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 139
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: cat. no. 605
citation
<em>In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 108
citation
Julien, Edouard, and Henri Focillon. <em>Dessins de Toulouse-Lautrec.</em> Lausanne: Mermod, 1959.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 68, under no. 17
citation
<em>Collection M. L.: Ensemble exceptionnel d'estampes originales, livres illustrés, important dessin aux crayons de couleur de Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec</em>. Paris: Galerie Charpentier, 1959.
page_number
Mentioned: under no. 257
citation
<em>A Generation of Draughtsmen.</em> Exh. cat. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1962.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: no. 156, pl. XIIc (ill.)
citation
Negri, Renata.<em> Toulouse-Lautrec, I maestri del colore</em>. Milan: Fabbri, 1964.
page_number
Reproduced: fig. 4
citation
Huisman, Philippe and M. G. Dortu. <em>Lautrec by Lautrec</em>. New York: Galahad, 1964.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 253
citation
<em>Toulouse-Lautrec</em>. Exh. cat. New York: Wildenstein, 1964.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: no. 64
citation
Neugass, Fritz. “Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec und der Kunstmarkt.” <em>Weltkunst</em> 34, no. 5 (March 1, 1964).
page_number
Reproduced: p. 139
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 179
citation
<em>Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864–1901</em>. Exh. cat. Vienna: Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, 1966.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 66, no. 39
citation
Novotny, Fritz. <em>Toulouse-Lautrec</em>. Translated by Michael Glenney. London: Phaidon, 1969.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 184, no. 15; Reproduced: plate 15
citation
Sugana, G. M. <em>The Complete Paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec</em>. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 101, no. 223
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 179
citation
Dortu, M. G. <em>Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre</em>. New York: Collectors Editions, 1971.
page_number
Mentioned: vol. 5, p. 492, no. D3.029; Reproduced: p. 493
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 222
citation
Thomson, Richard. <em>Toulouse-Lautrec</em>. London: Universal Books, 1980.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 46
citation
Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila. <em>Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism</em>. Exh. cat. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 336; Reproduced: p. 337
citation
Cooper, Douglas. <em>Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec</em>. New York: Abrams, 1982.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 27
citation
Adriani, Götz. <em>Toulouse-Lautrec</em>. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 76
citation
Sonn, Richard D. <em>Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siècle France</em>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 156, pp. 322-23; Reproduced: p. 157
citation
Schimmel, Herbert. <em>The Letters of Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec</em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 126, under nos. 163 and 164
citation
Julien, Édouard. <em>Toulouse-Lautrec</em>. New York: Flammarion, 1991.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 84
citation
<em>Toulouse-Lautrec</em>, 198 (ill.). Exh. cat. London: Hayward Gallery, 1991.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 198
citation
Murray, Gale B. <em>Toulouse-Lautrec: The Formative Years, 1878–1891</em>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. xvii, 167-70, 249; Reproduced: p. 168
citation
Murray, Gale B. <em>Toulouse-Lautrec: A Retrospective</em>. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin, 1992.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 102; Reproduced: p. 103
citation
Frey, Julia Bloch. <em>Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life</em>. London: Phoenix, 1994.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 245-46
citation
Mendelowitz, Daniel M., and Duane A. Wakeham. <em>A Guide to Drawing</em>. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 37
citation
DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Exh. cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 140-141, p. 291, no. 56; Reproduced: p. 141
citation
<em>Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints</em>. London: Sotheby's, 2001.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 130, under no. 262
citation
Scharf, Julietta, and Hanna Strzoda. <em>Die Historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg</em>. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2012.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 2, p. 221, no. 1366
citation
Prat, Louis-Antoine. “L’Enfer des Juliette.” In <em>Toulouse-Lautrec: Résolument moderne</em>, edited by Stéphane Guégan. Exh. cat. Paris: Musée d’Orsay, 2019.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 287
citation
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, Edgar Degas, and Florence Saragoza. Quand Toulouse-Lautrec regarde Degas. Albi : Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, 2022.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 61-62, fig. 32
citation
Salsbury, Britany. <em>Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism</em> Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 126, no.19
citation
Salsbury, Britany. <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 158-161, no. 30
catalogueRaisonne
Dortu D3.029
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Gift of the Hanna Fund
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2026-05-29 06:40:08.304000
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129221
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black and gray wash with white paint, scratched away in places, on gray cardboard prepared with white ground
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