File:Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Elles- The Toilet - 1925.1204.6 - Cleveland Museum of Art.jpg
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Elles: The Toilet ( ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q82445 |
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Title |
Elles: The Toilet |
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Description |
The French publisher Gustave Pellet, hoping to attract new customers, persuaded Lautrec to make a series of ten prints, plus frontispiece and cover, depicting brothels. Although it was not unusual to see prostitutes pictured in the popular press, Lautrec was the first well-known, successful artist to tackle this subject. The set was a commercial failure when it first appeared, perhaps because the scenes are not erotic. Lautrec had said that "they are women to my liking", and between 1892 and 1895 he often lived in various Parisian brothels for weeks at a time. This allowed him to witness the daily lives of the women, including the intimate acts of sleeping and bathing, and to sense their suffering. The result is that only two of the scenes show prostitutes as desirable temptresses. The remainder depict the mundane routine of the women's private world, their caring for each other, their boredom, and, living on the periphery of society, their sense of isolation. Lautrec did not take a direct moral stand. He portrayed the women sympathetically, restoring to them their humanity. One scene shows Juliette Baron, whose life of vice has led to premature aging, bringing her daughter Paulette breakfast. Other images depict the women at private moments, bathing or combing their hair in natural, relaxed poses, unaware of being observed. The beauty of the drawing and use of color makes this set one of the masterpieces of late nineteenth-century French color lithography. |
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Date |
1896 date QS:P571,+1896-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | Color lithograph | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q657415 |
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Accession number |
1925.1204.6 |
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Place of creation | France, 19th century | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Gift of Ralph King | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.1204.6 |
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Author | Associate Photographer and Digital Imaging Specialist, David Brichford |
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Copyright holder | |
Credit/Provider | Cleveland Museum of Art |
Source | Cleveland Museum of Art |
Online copyright statement | http://www.clevelandart.org |
City shown | Cleveland |
Date and time of data generation | 10:00, 4 June 2015 |
Contact information |
Cleveland Museum of Art11150 East Blvd Cleveland, OH, 44106 USA |
Original transmission location code | 2015-05-0905 |
Date and time of digitizing | 10:00, 4 June 2015 |
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Date metadata was last modified | 09:51, 4 June 2015 |
File change date and time | 09:51, 4 June 2015 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:925f2cfb-e9c2-45c8-9801-7ded76d00c40 |
Copyright status | Copyrighted |
Sublocation of city shown | Cleveland Museum of Art |
Country shown | USA |
Province or state shown | OH |