Head and torso of woman in profile facing left
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A woman sits with a pensive expression, facing left and looking straight in front of her. Her brunette hair is styled up at her forehead and held in a bun at back. Touches of pale red on her cheek and brighter red on her lips highlight her pale face. She wears a high collared dark burgundy dress of a stiff, heavy looking fabric. Muted olive greens and yellows indicate the walls behind her and at top center we glimpse part of window, seen from an angle.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1934.33
People
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French (Albi 1864 - 1901 Malromé)
Title
Augusta
Other Titles
Former Title: Portrait
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1890
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298488

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gouache on cardboard
Dimensions
60.3 x 38.1 cm (23 3/4 x 15 in.)
frame: 75.6 x 53.3 x 5.7 cm (29 3/4 x 21 x 2 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: ll: T-Lautrec

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[P. Rosenberg, Paris]. [Wildenstein, New York]. Mrs. Annie S. Coburn, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Annie Swan Coburn
Accession Year
1934
Object Number
1934.33
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), ill. p. 102
  • Christopher Lloyd, Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI, 2011), pp. 29, 67, repr. p. 157 as pl. 112, listed on p. 172 under "works in the exhibition"

Exhibition History

  • Works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 03/06/1947 - 04/20/1947
  • Toulouse Lautrec, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 01/02/1956 - 02/15/1956
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) 19th Century French Portrait Drawings, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/07/2009 - 08/30/2009
  • Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 10/14/2011 - 01/08/2012

Verification Level

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