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At the Opera: Madame Caron in Faust
At the Opera: Madame Caron in Faust

At the Opera: Madame Caron in Faust

Original Language TitleA L'Opéra: Mme. Caron dans Faust
Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864 - 1901)
Date1894
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 14 1/4 × 10 3/8 inches (36.2 × 26.35 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-69/23
Edition/State/Proof16/100
On View
Not on view
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Exhibition History

The World of Toulouse-Lautrec, Pasadena (CA) Art Institute, January 29-March 4, 1951.

 

Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1952.

 

All the World’s a Stage: Images of Theatre and Design, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 16-July 11, 2010, no cat.
Gallery Label
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has represented here the famous operatic soprano, Rose Caron (1857-1930), one of the stars of the Paris Opéra in the late 19th century. She appears in the character of Marguerite in Charles Gounod's opera, Faust. Caron was known for her magnetic stage presence, and here she dominates the composition, framed to left and right by smaller male figures in medieval dress. Toulouse-Lautrec also highlights her exotic features: high cheekbones, pointed jaw and almond-shaped eyes enhanced by darkened eyebrows. Toulouse-Lautrec's signature stamp appears in red at bottom right and is also evident in a detail of Caron's dress.
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 2, no. 1 (January 7, 1894).

 

Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré (xix et xx siècles), vol. 10, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec (Paris: Loys Delteil, 1920), no. 49, unpaginated, (repro.), as À l’Opéra: Mme Caron dans Faust.

 

M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son Œuvre (New York: Collectors Editions, 1971), no. 49.

 

Jean Adhémar, Toulouse-Lautrec: His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1965), no. 52.

 

Wolfgang Wittrock, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Prints, trans. and ed. Catherine E. Kuehn (London: Sotheby's Publications, 1985), no. 39.

 

Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works; A Catalogue Raisonné (New York, 1988), no. 54.

 

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 A [sic] la Opéra: Mme. Caron dans Faust.

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