The Milliner, Renée Vert

Original Language TitleLa modiste. Renée Vert

Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864 - 1901)

Date1893

MediumLithograph in two colors

DimensionsImage: 18 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (47.63 x 29.85 cm)
Sheet: 21 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches (54.61 x 34.93 cm)
Mat: 26 1/2 x 21 inches (67.31 x 53.34 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Leonard Charles Kline

Object numberF86-33

SignedSigned: (lower left, in pencil): No. 10/ HTLautrec ; (in the stone at lower left edge of hatbox): HTL ; (in the stone, in square atop box, in reverse): HTL

InscribedLower Left, in pencil: No. 10 / T-Lautrec Lower Right, in pencil: La modiste [ép. sur] japon, 1e état / très rare [Maybe the « ép » means « épreuve » ?] Lower right, in pencil: L. D 13[?]

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Exhibition History

Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901: His Lithographic Work, A Loan Exhibition of The Collection of Ludwig Charell for the Benefit of the Musée d’Albi, France, M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., New York, March 22-April 15, 1950, no. 11A, as La Modiste (Renée Vert).

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901: His Graphic Works from the Collection of Ludwig Charell, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1951, no. 13a.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: das graphische Werk; Sammlung Ludwig Charell, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, 1951.

Lithographies de Toulouse-Lautrec de la collection Ludwig Charell, Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, Venice, 1952.

Toulouse-Lautrec: His Lithographic Work from the Collection of Ludwig Charell, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, March 2-April 20, 1953; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, June 5-?, 1953; Art Gallery of Toronto, September 18-October 18, 1953.

A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 14-December 6, 1987, no. 116, as La modiste, Renée Vert.

Graphic Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 23-July 25, 1993, no. 68, as La modiste, Renée Vert.

Inked in Time: Six Centuries of Printed Masterpieces, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 22-May 31, 1998.

Gallery Label

In this print, the milliner Renée Vert examines a hat trimmed with expensive ostrich feathers. A pair of scissors rests on the table, ready at a moment’s notice for the designer to shape the feathers and ribbons. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s initials adorn a large hatbox, which sits behind the milliner. This version of his signature is in reverse due to the printing process. Born Marie Léontine Vert (1856–1930), the businesswoman chose the trade name Renée Vert and opened her shop just before this lithograph was made. Milliners, particularly the shop owners, were the highest paid workers in the Parisian garment district.

Provenance

Possibly Alfred Walter Heymel (1878-1914), Leipzig, Munich, and Bremen, by 1911;

Possibly Heinrich Stinnes (1868-1932), Cologne, 1911-1932 [1];

Ludwig Charell (1891?-1956), by 1950-1956 [2];

His posthumous sale, A Collection of Fine Lithographs and Drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: The Property of a Gentleman, Sotheby’s, London, October 6, 1966, lot 14, as La Modiste;

with William Findlay Gallery, Kansas City, MO, and Boca Raton, FL;

Leonard Charles Kline (1896–1968), Kansas City, MO, by October 14, 1968;

Inherited by his wife, Ruth Carr Kline (née Patton, 1902–1993), Kansas City, MO, 1968–November 17, 1986;

Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1986.

NOTES:

[1] According to the 1932 auction catalogue, Stinnes bought the complete Toulouse-Lautrec collection from Heymel in 1911; see Die Sammlung Dr. Heinrich Stinnes, Köln, I. Teil; Graphik des XIX. Und XX. Jahrhunderts Frühdrucke von Corot...; Das werk des H. de Toulouse-Lautrec ehem. Im Besitze von A. W. Heymel (Leipzig: C. G. Boerner, November 10-11, 1932), lot 450, as La Modiste (Renée Vert). The lithograph was unsold at this sale. See email from Andrea Langenberger, C. G. Boerner GmbH, to Meghan Gray, NAMA, November 28, 2019, NAMA curatorial files.

[2] Charell may have purchased the lithograph from Stinnes’ posthumous sale in 1932. “The Charell brothers, Ludwig and Erik, began their collection in the early 1930s, founding it on their purchases from the auction of the collection of Heinrich Stinnes.” See Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby Parke Bernet 1977–78 (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1978), 171.

Published References

Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustre (XIXe et XXe Siècles), vol. 11, part 2, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec (Paris: Loys Delteil, 1920), no. 13, (repro.), as La Modiste (Renée Vert), Menu.

Possibly Die Sammlung Dr. Heinrich Stinnes, Köln, I. Teil; Graphik des XIX. Und XX. Jahrhunderts Frühdrucke von Corot...; Das werk des H. de Toulouse-Lautrec ehem. Im Besitze von A. W. Heymel... (Leipzig: C. G. Boerner, 1932), unpaginated, as La Modiste (Renée Vert).

Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901: His Lithographic Work, A Loan Exhibition of The Collection of Ludwig Charell for the Benefit of the Musée d’Albi, France, exh. cat. (New York: M. Knoedler, 1950), 32, 37, (repro.), as La Modiste (Renée Vert).

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901, his graphic works from the Collection of Ludwig Charell, exh. cat. (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1951).

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: das graphische Werk; Sammlung Ludwig Charell, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1951).

Lithographies de Toulouse-Lautrec de la collection Ludwig Charell (Venice: Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, 1952).

Toulouse-Lautrec, his lithographic work from the collection of Ludwig Charell, exh. cat. (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1953).

Jean Adhémar, Toulouse-Lautrec: His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints (New York: Harry N. Abrams 1965), XVII, unpaginated, as La Modiste dressant un chapeau (The Milliner Trimming a Hat).

Catalogue of A Collection of Fine Lithographs and Drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: The Property of a Gentleman, (London: Sotheby’s, 1966), 26, (repro.), as La Modiste.

Possibly Götz Adriani and Wolfgang Wittrock, Toulouse-Lautrec: Das Gesamte Graphische Werk ... in Zusammenarbeit Mit Wolfgang Wittrock, exh. cat. (Cologne: DuMont, 1976), no. 16 I.

Wolfgang Wittrock, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Prints, trans. and ed. Catherine E. Kuehn, vol. 1 (London: Sotheby's Publications, 1985), no. 4, pp. 60-61, (repro.), as La modiste, Renée Vert.

Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec: Das Gesamte Graphische Werk: Sammlung Gerstenberg (Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 1986), no. 13-II, p. 44, (repro.), as La Modiste, Renée Vert.

Roger Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 258-59, (repro.), as La modiste, Renée Vert.

Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works, A Catalogue Raisonné, The Gerstenberg Collection, 2nd ed. (London: Thames and Hudson, 1988), no. 13-II, p. 44, (repro.), as La Modiste, Renée Vert; The Milliner, Renée Vert.

Graphic Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 16, as La modiste, Renée Vert.

George L. McKenna, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Prints 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with The University of Washington Press, 1996), 183, 298, (repro.), as The Milliner, Renée Vert (La modiste, Renée Vert).

Inked in Time: Six Centuries of Printed Masterpieces, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1998), unpaginated.

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