Poster for ‘Le Moulin Rouge’, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1891

paper, h 1728mm × w 1226mm More details

This is Lautrec’s first, and simultaneously most famous, poster. His talent for drawing on stone (lithography) was fully developed at that time. Depicted are the cabaret’s dancing stars ‘La Goulue’ (The Glutton) and her partner ‘Valentin le Désossé’ (The Boneless One). This poster was acclaimed in the French newspapers and shortly thereafter shown in an avant-garde exhibition in Brussels.

Identification

Title(s)

Poster for ‘Le Moulin Rouge’
Affiche voor de Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge. La Goulue (title on object)

Object type

poster
print

Object number

RP-P-1954-57

Catalogue reference

Wittrock P1-D
Delteil 339-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

stamp: ‘Republique Française’
stamp: ‘Moulin Rouge’

Description

In het midden de beroemde cancandanseres Louise Weber, bijgenaamd La Goulue. De man met hoge hoed is haar danspartner, Jacques Renaudin, beter bekend als Valentin le Désossé.

Creation

Artist

print maker: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (mentioned on object)
printer: Charles Levy (mentioned on object)

Place

Paris

Dating

1891

Material and Technique

Material

paper

Measurements

height 1728 mm × width 1226 mm

Explanatory note

Bovenste deel van het affiche ontbreekt.

Subject

What

Where

Moulin Rouge

Who

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1954

Copyright

Public domain

Relations

Affiche voor de Moulin Rouge

Documentation

Toulouse-Lautrec : the complete prints, Wolfgang Wittrock, Catherine E. Kuehn, dl. 2, p. 756, cat.nr. P1
H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, dl. 11, cat.nr. 339

Persistent URL

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