In a Private Dining Room (At the Rat Mort)
Tête-à-tête Supper

Copyright

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Maker


1864-1901

Title

In a Private Dining Room (At the Rat Mort)
Tête-à-tête Supper

Date of Production

(circa) 1899

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 55.1 cm (canvas)
Width: 46 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1948.SC.466

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, bequest, 1948

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

On display
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Keywords

  • Cosmetics & soap

Label Text

Toulouse-Lautrec was famed for his closely-observed portrayals of late nineteenth-century Parisian nightlife, from music halls to brothels. Here, a high-class prostitute, probably Lucy Jourdain, is shown in elaborate costume seated in a cabinet particulier (a private room intended for intimate liaisons) at the café-restaurant Le Rat Mort (the Dead Rat). The light from the lamp at the left casts a sickly green glow. The blurry and hallucinatory effect is deeply evocative of seedy night-time entertainment.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed : top right & recto : initials in monogram : T-Lautrec

Provenance

G Sére de Rivières, Paris; with Georges Bernheim, Paris; Caressa, Paris; The Independent Gallery, London; purchased by Samuel Courtauld, March 1928; Courtauld Bequest, 1948.

Exhibition History

Masterpieces of Impressionism from The Courtauld Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 10/09/2019-15/12/2019; Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 03/01/2020-15/03/2020; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, 28/03/2020-21/06/2020
The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019
Picasso/Lautrec, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 17/10/2017-21/01/2018
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Easy Virtue, Prostitution in French Art, 1850-1910, Musee d'Orsay, Paris, 22/09/2015-17/01/2016; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 19/02/2016-19/06/2016
Toulouse-Lautrec, National Gallery of Australia & Canberra & Australia, 14/12/2012-02/04/2013
Part of general displays (reciprocal loan), Albi & France, 16/06/2011-18/09/2011
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, 21/02/2008-25/05/2008
Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, Art Institute of Chicago & Chicago & USA, 16/07/2005-10/10/2005
Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 20/03/2005-12/06/2005
Into the 20th century - New Displays at the Courtauld, Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/2002
Toulouse-Lautrec, Tobu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 02/01/2001-04/03/2001
Toulouse-Lautrec, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan, 18/11/2000-24/12/2000
1900 - Art at the Crossroads, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 16/01/2000-03/04/2000
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Grand Palais & Paris & France, 18/02/1992-08/06/1992
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Hayward Gallery, London, 10/10/1991-19/01/1992
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Literature

Toulouse-Lautrec, Tobu Museum, Tokyo, 2001
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998

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