Yvette Guilbert
Maker
(lithographer)
1864-1901
(artist)
1864-1901
1864-1901
(artist)
1864-1901
Title
Yvette Guilbert
Date of Production
1893
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Height: 25.3 cm
Width: 22.3 cm
Width: 22.3 cm
Accession Number
G.1935.SC.198
Mode of Acquisition
Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1935
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
Lautrec portrayed Yvette Guilbert more often than any other of the Parisian café-concert singers, featuring her in an album of lithographs dedicated to her. Well-known for her ribald songs, Guilbert was famous also for her tall, slim silhouette and long black gloves, carefully chosen, as she wrote in her memoirs, to exaggerate ‘my slightness of my arms, lending elegance also to my shoulders and the carriage of my neck, so long and slender.’ Her meticulously contrived appearance is perfectly described in this print.
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Exhibition History
Special Display - Impressionist Prints, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 13/06/2008-13/10/2008
Paris by Night: Lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/04/2003-03/06/2003
Samuel Courtauld memorial exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, 1948
Paris by Night: Lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/04/2003-03/06/2003
Samuel Courtauld memorial exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, 1948
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscribed : signed in the stone : recto & lower right : initials in monogram, encircled : H T-L
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