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Couverture de 'L'Estampe originale' (Album de clôture)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Printed by: Edward Ancourt
Published by: André Marty (1857-1928)
Title
Couverture de 'L'Estampe originale' (Album de clôture)
Description
English: Cover for the last album of 'L'Estampe originale', March 1895, right hand side: view of stage with curtain down, from wings, with figure operating pulley, ballerina rehearsing beyond; decorative elephant on plinth to left, with caption and list of artists represented in album beneath. 1895
Colour crayon, brush and spatter lithograph, printed in dark olive-green ink on imitation japan paper
Date 1895
date QS:P571,+1895-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 583 millimetres
Width: 396 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1920,0522.43
Notes

This is the right-hand side of the cover for the ninth and last album of 'L'Estampe Originale', March 1895; see 1920,0522.44 for the left-hand side. (Text from 'From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec', BM 1978, cat.105) This lithograph folded into two halves to serve as the wrapper for the last livraison of 'L'Estampe Originale', which was published in March 1895 in an edition of 100. The elephant and the list of contents join the man raising the curtain on the front cover; on the back, watching the curtain rise from the audience's side is Misia Natanson.

The elephant reappears in Lautrec's programme cover (A.105) for a play translated from the Hindustani called 'Le Chariot de Terre Cuite', which opened in January 1895 at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre. Lautrec had in fact designed the stage set for this production. An eyewitness reports that in the foreground on the right was a mountain of cactus while on the left was an elephant in profile; the backcloth was a painted vision of India (Joyant 1927, p.42). Probably this also explains why Lautrec began to use occasionally a monogram with an outline elephant in 1894.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1920-0522-43
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