id: 107212
accession number: 1925.1204.10
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Elles: Elles: Woman In a Corset, 1896. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901). Color lithograph; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ralph King 1925.1204.10
title: Elles: Woman In a Corset
title in original language:
series: Elles
series in original language:
creation date: 1896
creation date earliest: 1896
creation date latest: 1896
current location:
creditline: Gift of Ralph King
copyright:
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: color lithograph
department: Prints
collection: PR - Lithograph
type: Print
find spot:
catalogue raisonne: Wittrock Vol.I.164 ; Delteil 188
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CREATORS
* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901) - artist
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state of the work: W. I/I
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Prints by Toulouse-Lautrec and Bonnard
opening date: 1985-12-03T05:00:00
Prints by Toulouse-Lautrec and Bonnard. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 3, 1985-March 2, 1986).
title: Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris
opening date: 2012-10-04T00:00:00
Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* CMA 1996: Sets and Series: Five Centuries of Master Prints, February 20-May 5, 1996, no cat.
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PROVENANCE
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Like Cassatt, Toulouse-Lautrec also made a series of color prints depicting the daily lives of women, but instead of portraying bourgeois wives and mothers, his subjects were prostitutes. His series of twelve lithographs entitled Elles boldly confronted the reality of late 19th-century Parisian brothels on the rue de Moulins and the rue de Richelieu, in which rich men's pursuit of pleasure with the daughters of the poor was legal and accepted. Although not portraits of classic beauty, his depictions of Parisian prostitutes embrace the poignancy of human experience. Here, a prostitute unhooks her corset in the presence of a client, her face sympathetically averted from the viewer's gaze.
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