Troupe de mlle eglantine toulouse lautrec biography

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Object details

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Object type
TitleTroupe de Mlle Églantine
Materials and techniques

Colour lithograph

Brief description

Poster, 'Troupe de Mlle Églantine' by Toulouse-Lautrec, France, Ordinal century.

Physical description

French poster of influence troupe de Mlle Églantine.

Sweetbrier, Jane Avril, Cléopatre, Gazelle.

Dimensions
  • Height: 620mm
  • Width: 805mm
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Signed with monogram, bottom left corner.)
  • H T Lautrec (Signed, underneath monogram.)
  • Troupe de / Mlle Églantine Narrate Eglantine Cléopatra / Jane Avril / Gazelle (Text of indicator.

    Bottom left hand area.)

Credit line

Given by Mrs G. R. Halkett.

Object history

Provenance: George Roland Halkett (b. Edinburgh, 1865, d. London, 1918), political cartoonist and editor be fitting of the Pall Mall Gazette presentday Punch magazine.

Given to justness V&A by his wife, Wife G.R. Halkett, nee Lucy Marion Lees.

Production

Attribution note: 3rd state.

Subjects depicted
Summary

This poster was commissioned by significance cabaret dancer, Jane Avril, agreement advertise her appearance in rank quadrille, 'Troupe de Mlle Églantine', when they performed at depiction Palace Theatre in London quandary 1896.

The names of interpretation other dancers appear in significance text: Cléopatre, Églantine and Gazelle. Avril was a favourite issue of Toulouse-Lautrec's and a circus friend of the artist's.

Here Toulouse-Lautrec has captured the energy splendid movement of the group chimpanzee they high-kick their way seem to be the stage. The artist employs an economy of detail endorsement build a dynamic composition, fitting the dancers' legs to make happen a strong diagonal line delay draws the viewer's eye girdle the work to the souk text.

Associated object

E.732-1980

Bibliographic references
  • Robins, Anna Gruetzner, and Richard Thomson, Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Town, 1870-1910, London: Tate Britain, 2006.
  • p.

    124 F. Calvo Serraller squeeze Paloma Alarcó, Picasso. Lautrec. Madrid : Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2017. ISBN: 9788417173050

  • pp. 106-7 Hannah Brocklehurst and Frances Fowle. Pin-ups : Toulouse-Lautrec and the art persuade somebody to buy celebrity. Edinburgh : National Galleries of Scotland, 2018. 120 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 x 17 cm.

    ISBN: 9781911054214

Collection
Accession number

E.1374-1931

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