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accession number: 1952.113
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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
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:
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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
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CREATORS
* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 75.9 x 63.1 cm (29 7/8 x 24 13/16 in.)
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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:
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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).
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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'}
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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:
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RELATED WORKS
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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.
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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:
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