À La Gaieté Rochechouart: Nicolle

Former TitleNicolle Pierreuse

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

Date1893

MediumLithograph; drawing in black; chalk, ink with brush and spraying technique printed on wove paper

DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (36.83 x 26.35 cm)
Sheet: 15 x 11 inches (38.1 x 27.94 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number32-69/52

Edition/State/ProofL’Escarmouche edition

On View

Not on view

Collections

Prints

Terms

Exhibition History

Exhibition, Albrecht Art Gallery, St. Joseph, MO, September 18-October 19, 1966.

Town and Country, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 23, 2011-January 22, 2012, no cat.

Gallery Label

Nicolle, the subject of this lithograph, was a performer at the popular Parisian theater the Gaité Rochechouart. Female actors, dancers, and singers lived outside the boundaries of polite society during the late 1800s. Their careers were closely associated with prostitution because these women performed on stage for money. Although he was born to an aristocratic family, artist Toulouse-Lautrec identified with social outcasts. He often made pictures of the people he met in clubs, brothels, and other sites of entertainment.

Provenance

Charles Deering (1852–1927), Stiges, Spain, by 1924;

Possibly given to his daughters, Marion McCormick (née Deering, 1886-1965), DuPage County, IL, and Barbara Danielson (née Deering, 1888-1987), Miami, 1924 [1];

The Art Institute of Chicago, as Nicolle Pierreuse, by May 30, 1930-April 1, 1932;

Purchased from the Art Institute of Chicago, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

NOTES:

[1] According to the Art Institute of Chicago, Charles Deering gave his art collection to his daughters in 1924. They in turn donated many works to the Art Institute following his death in 1927.

Published References

l’Escarmouche, no. 8 (December 31, 1893).

Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré (xix et xx siècles), vol. 10, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec (Paris: Loys Delteil, 1920), no. 48, unpaginated, (repro.), as À La Gaieté Rochechouart: Nicolle.

Jean Adhémar, Toulouse-Lautrec: His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1965), no. 51.

M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son Œuvre (New York: Collectors Editions, 1971), no. 48.

Wolfgang Wittrock, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Prints, trans. and ed. Catherine E. Kuehn (London: Sotheby's Publications, 1985), no. 38.

Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works; A Catalogue Raisonné (New York, 1988), no. 53.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 298, as À La Gaieté Rochechouart: Nicolle.

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