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Leaving the theatre

Maker

(artist)
1864-1901

(lithographer)
1864-1901

Title

Leaving the theatre

Date of Production

1896

Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

Height: 32 cm
Width: 26.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1948.SC.205

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, bequest, 1948

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Label Text

Montmartre prostitutes were among Lautrec’s favourite models. Here the woman who ran the maison close or brothel in the rue des Moulins is shown leaving the theatre with a companion, a discrete shadow in the background. The lifelike statue reflected in the mirror perhaps refers to the brothel-keeper’s occupation. Its naked body contrasts with her full evening costume; only the shape of her coiffure echoes the sculpture’s voluptuous outline.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Special Display - Toulouse-Lautrec prints, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 07/06/2011-06/10/2011

Manet to Matisse - French Prints from the Courtauld, Finchley & London & England, 27/06/2008-16/08/2008

Paris by Night: Lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/04/2003-03/06/2003 ...More

About Time, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 24/02/2000-30/05/2000

Post-Impressionist Graphics, travelling exhibition, 1980

Samuel Courtauld memorial exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, 1948 ...Less

Literature

Salmon, Dimitri, Percy Moore Turner, Précieux Conseiller de Samuel and Elizabeth Courtauld, Fondation Louis Vuitton 2019
pp. 33n151, 34n157, 35, 38, no. 6 on p. 67
no. 6 on p. 67

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscribed : signed in the stone : recto & lower right : initials in monogram, encircled : H T-L

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