id: 129221 accession number: 1952.113 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.113 updated: 2024-04-25 11:08:14.427000 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 title: The Laundress title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1888 creation date earliest: 1888 creation date latest: 1888 current location: creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: black and gray wash with white paint, scratched away in places, on gray cardboard prepared with white ground department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Dortu D3.029 --- CREATORS * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 75.9 x 63.1 cm (29 7/8 x 24 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: gray cardboard prepared with a white ground watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower right, in brush and ink and black crayon: T-Lautrec; inscribed, on verso, upper center, in graphite: M translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Toulouse-Lautrec: Exhibition Organized in Collaboration with the Albi Museum opening date: 1955-10-29T04:00:00 Toulouse-Lautrec: Exhibition Organized in Collaboration with the Albi Museum. Philadelphia Museum of Art (organizer) (October 29-December 11, 1955); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (January 2-February 15, 1956). title: Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs opening date: 1956-03-20T05:00:00 Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 20-May 6, 1956). title: Art: The International Language opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00 Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: French Drawings of the 1800's opening date: 1962-04-22T05:00:00 French Drawings of the 1800's. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (April 22-May 29, 1962). title: A Generation of Draughtsmen opening date: 1962-04-25T05:00:00 A Generation of Draughtsmen. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (April 25-May 29, 1962). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: Toulouse-Lautrec opening date: 1964-02-07T05:00:00 Toulouse-Lautrec. Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY (February 7-March 14, 1964). title: 19th and 20th Century Drawings opening date: 1965-02-19T05:00:00 19th and 20th Century Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 24, 1965). title: French Drawings opening date: 1965-11-16T05:00:00 French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1965-February 16, 1966). title: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901 opening date: 1966-06-01T04:00:00 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901. MAK, the Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, Austria (organizer). title: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec opening date: 1966-06-02T04:00:00 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. MAK, the Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, Austria (June 2-July 31, 1966). title: Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings opening date: 1979-05-31T04:00:00 Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 31-August 19, 1979). title: Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism opening date: 1981-01-24T05:00:00 Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (organizer) (January 24-March 22, 1981); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (April 9-June 14, 1981). title: Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-11-16T05:00:00 Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). 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). title: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2023-01-20T05:00:00 Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023). title: Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism opening date: 2023-10-08T04:00:00 Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 8, 2023-January 14, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864–1901. Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (June–July 1966).', 'opening_date': '1966-07-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Roger Marx [1859–1913], Paris date: ?-1914 footnotes: *
Marx's stamp (not in Lugt) was on an old backing board, now lost, recorded in CMA files.
citations: (his sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, May 11–12, 1914, no. 222, sold to Simon Oppenheimer) date: 1914 footnotes: *
Sold for 7,000 F, according to annotated sale catalogue, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris.
citations: (Simon Oppenheimer, Germany, sold to Otto Gerstenberg, Berlin) date: After 1914 footnotes: citations: Otto Gerstenberg [1848–1935], Berlin, by descent to Margarethe Scharf, Berlin date: 1914-1935 footnotes: citations: Margarethe Scharf [1889–1961], Berlin date: 1935-1936 footnotes: citations: Deposited in Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen date: 1936-1950 footnotes: citations: (Jean-Pierre Durand-Matthiesen, Geneva) date: 1951-1952 footnotes: citations: (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1952 footnotes: *
Inventory no. WCA1442. M. Knoedler & Co. records, Getty Research Institute Special Collections.
citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1952- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Michelet, Émile. “L’Été à Paris.” Paris illustré 6 (1888). page number: Reproduced: p. 425 url: Catalogue des tableaux, pastels, dessins, aquarelles [. . .] faisant partie de la collection Roger Marx. Paris: Galerie Manzi-Joyant, 1914. page number: Mentioned: p. 105, no. 222; Reproduced: n.p. url: bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/idviewer/22422/122 Astre, Achille. H. de Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris: Nilsson, 1926. page number: Mentioned: p. 96 url: Joyant, Maurice. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1964–1901: Dessins, estampes, affiches. Paris: H. Floury, 1927. page number: Mentioned: pp. 191, 279; Reproduced: p. 17 url: Mack, Gerstle. Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. page number: Mentioned: p. 293 url: Francis, Henry S. "La Blanchisseuse by Toulouse-Lautrec." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 40, no. 3 (March 1953): 51-53. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 51-53 url: Neugass, Fritz. "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec und der Kunstmarkt." Weltkunst 34 (March 1953): 139. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 139 url: Toulouse-Lautrec: Exhibition Organized in Collaboration with the Albi Museum. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1955. page number: Reproduced: no. 85 url: Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1956. page number: Mentioned: p. 46, no. 51 url: Perruchot, Henri. La vie de Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris: Hachette, 1958. page number: Mentioned: p. 139 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 605 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n113 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned: no. 108 url: Julien, Edouard, and Henri Focillon. Dessins de Toulouse-Lautrec. Lausanne: Mermod, 1959. page number: Mentioned: p. 68, under no. 17 url: Collection M. L.: Ensemble exceptionnel d'estampes originales, livres illustrés, important dessin aux crayons de couleur de Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris: Galerie Charpentier, 1959. page number: Mentioned: under no. 257 url: A Generation of Draughtsmen. Exh. cat. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1962. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 156, pl. XIIc (ill.) url: Negri, Renata. Toulouse-Lautrec, I maestri del colore. Milan: Fabbri, 1964. page number: Reproduced: fig. 4 url: Huisman, Philippe and M. G. Dortu. Lautrec by Lautrec. New York: Galahad, 1964. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 253 url: Toulouse-Lautrec. Exh. cat. New York: Wildenstein, 1964. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 64 url: Neugass, Fritz. “Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec und der Kunstmarkt.” Weltkunst 34, no. 5 (March 1, 1964). page number: Reproduced: p. 139 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 179 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n203 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864–1901. Exh. cat. Vienna: Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, 1966. page number: Mentioned: p. 66, no. 39 url: Novotny, Fritz. Toulouse-Lautrec. Translated by Michael Glenney. London: Phaidon, 1969. page number: Mentioned: p. 184, no. 15; Reproduced: plate 15 url: Sugana, G. M. The Complete Paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 101, no. 223 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 179 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n203 Dortu, M. G. Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre. New York: Collectors Editions, 1971. page number: Mentioned: vol. 5, p. 492, no. D3.029; Reproduced: p. 493 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 222 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n242 Thomson, Richard. Toulouse-Lautrec. London: Universal Books, 1980. page number: Mentioned: p. 46 url: Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila. Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism. Exh. cat. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981. page number: Mentioned: p. 336; Reproduced: p. 337 url: Cooper, Douglas. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Abrams, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 27 url: Adriani, Götz. Toulouse-Lautrec. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. page number: Mentioned: p. 76 url: Sonn, Richard D. Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siècle France. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. page number: Mentioned: pp. 156, pp. 322-23; Reproduced: p. 157 url: Schimmel, Herbert. The Letters of Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. page number: Mentioned: p. 126, under nos. 163 and 164 url: Julien, Édouard. Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Flammarion, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 84 url: Toulouse-Lautrec, 198 (ill.). Exh. cat. London: Hayward Gallery, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 198 url: Murray, Gale B. Toulouse-Lautrec: The Formative Years, 1878–1891. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. page number: Mentioned: pp. xvii, 167-70, 249; Reproduced: p. 168 url: Murray, Gale B. Toulouse-Lautrec: A Retrospective. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin, 1992. page number: Mentioned: p. 102; Reproduced: p. 103 url: Frey, Julia Bloch. Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life. London: Phoenix, 1994. page number: Mentioned: pp. 245-46 url: Mendelowitz, Daniel M., and Duane A. Wakeham. A Guide to Drawing. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 2000. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 37 url: DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: pp. 140-141, p. 291, no. 56; Reproduced: p. 141 url: Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints. London: Sotheby's, 2001. page number: Mentioned: p. 130, under no. 262 url: Scharf, Julietta, and Hanna Strzoda. Die Historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2012. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 2, p. 221, no. 1366 url: Prat, Louis-Antoine. “L’Enfer des Juliette.” In Toulouse-Lautrec: Résolument moderne, edited by Stéphane Guégan. Exh. cat. Paris: Musée d’Orsay, 2019. page number: Mentioned: p. 287 url: 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 url: Salsbury, Britany. Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023. page number: Reproduced: p. 126, no.19 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.113/1952.113_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.113/1952.113_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.113/1952.113_full.tif