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Nov 15, 2011

The Laundress

1888

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

(French, 1864–1901)

France, 19th century

Black and gray wash with white paint, scratched away in places, on gray cardboard prepared with white ground

Support: Gray cardboard prepared with a white ground

Sheet: 75.9 x 63.1 cm (29 7/8 x 24 13/16 in.)

Gift of the Hanna Fund 1952.113

Catalogue raisonné: Dortu D3.029

Location

004 Special Exhibition Gallery

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To create this drawing, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted a board white and then both scraped the material away in areas and drew with black ink to create a variety of tones throughout the image.

Description

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec produced this drawing to illustrate an article about Parisian summers. It presents the type of poorly paid worker who remained in the city while others traveled to escape the urban heat. Because the image was to be reproduced in black and white, Toulouse-Lautrec thinned and brushed ink, scraping into it to expose fine white highlights. Like several artworks in Cleveland’s collection, the drawing was formerly owned by Roger Marx, a French collector, curator, and art critic who built perhaps the most substantial holdings of Toulouse-Lautrec’s work around the turn of the century.

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower right, in brush and ink and black crayon: T-Lautrec; inscribed, on verso, upper center, in graphite: M

Provenance

?-1914

Roger Marx [1859–1913], Paris ¹

1914

(his sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, May 11–12, 1914, no. 222, sold to Simon Oppenheimer) ²

After 1914

(Simon Oppenheimer, Germany, sold to Otto Gerstenberg, Berlin)

1914-1935

Otto Gerstenberg [1848–1935], Berlin, by descent to Margarethe Scharf, Berlin

1935-1936

Margarethe Scharf [1889–1961], Berlin

1936-1950

Deposited in Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

1951-1952

(Jean-Pierre Durand-Matthiesen, Geneva)

1952

(M. Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) ³

1952-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Provenance Footnotes

¹Marx's stamp (not in Lugt) was on an old backing board, now lost, recorded in CMA files.

²Sold for 7,000 F, according to annotated sale catalogue, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris.

³Inventory no. WCA1442. M. Knoedler & Co. records, Getty Research Institute Special Collections.

Citations

Michelet, Émile. “L’Été à Paris.” Paris illustré 6 (1888). Reproduced: p. 425

Catalogue des tableaux, pastels, dessins, aquarelles [. . .] faisant partie de la collection Roger Marx. Paris: Galerie Manzi-Joyant, 1914. Mentioned: p. 105, no. 222; Reproduced: n.p. bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr

Astre, Achille. H. de Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris: Nilsson, 1926. Mentioned: p. 96

Joyant, Maurice. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1964–1901: Dessins, estampes, affiches. Paris: H. Floury, 1927. Mentioned: pp. 191, 279; Reproduced: p. 17

Mack, Gerstle. Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. Mentioned: p. 293

Francis, Henry S. "La Blanchisseuse by Toulouse-Lautrec." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 40, no. 3 (March 1953): 51-53. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 51-53

Neugass, Fritz. "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec und der Kunstmarkt." Weltkunst 34 (March 1953): 139. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 139

Toulouse-Lautrec: Exhibition Organized in Collaboration with the Albi Museum. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1955. Reproduced: no. 85

Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1956. Mentioned: p. 46, no. 51

Perruchot, Henri. La vie de Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris: Hachette, 1958. Mentioned: p. 139

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 605 archive.org

In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned: no. 108

Julien, Edouard, and Henri Focillon. Dessins de Toulouse-Lautrec. Lausanne: Mermod, 1959. Mentioned: p. 68, under no. 17

Collection M. L.: Ensemble exceptionnel d'estampes originales, livres illustrés, important dessin aux crayons de couleur de Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris: Galerie Charpentier, 1959. Mentioned: under no. 257

A Generation of Draughtsmen. Exh. cat. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1962. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 156, pl. XIIc (ill.)

Negri, Renata. Toulouse-Lautrec, I maestri del colore. Milan: Fabbri, 1964. Reproduced: fig. 4

Huisman, Philippe and M. G. Dortu. Lautrec by Lautrec. New York: Galahad, 1964. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 253

Toulouse-Lautrec. Exh. cat. New York: Wildenstein, 1964. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 64

Neugass, Fritz. “Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec und der Kunstmarkt.” Weltkunst 34, no. 5 (March 1, 1964). Reproduced: p. 139

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 179 archive.org

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864–1901. Exh. cat. Vienna: Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, 1966. Mentioned: p. 66, no. 39

Novotny, Fritz. Toulouse-Lautrec. Translated by Michael Glenney. London: Phaidon, 1969. Mentioned: p. 184, no. 15; Reproduced: plate 15

Sugana, G. M. The Complete Paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 101, no. 223

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 179 archive.org

Dortu, M. G. Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre. New York: Collectors Editions, 1971. Mentioned: vol. 5, p. 492, no. D3.029; Reproduced: p. 493

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 222 archive.org

Thomson, Richard. Toulouse-Lautrec. London: Universal Books, 1980. Mentioned: p. 46

Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila. Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism. Exh. cat. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981. Mentioned: p. 336; Reproduced: p. 337

Cooper, Douglas. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Abrams, 1982. Reproduced: p. 27

Adriani, Götz. Toulouse-Lautrec. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. Mentioned: p. 76

Sonn, Richard D. Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siècle France. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Mentioned: pp. 156, pp. 322-23; Reproduced: p. 157

Schimmel, Herbert. The Letters of Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Mentioned: p. 126, under nos. 163 and 164

Julien, Édouard. Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Flammarion, 1991. Reproduced: p. 84

Toulouse-Lautrec, 198 (ill.). Exh. cat. London: Hayward Gallery, 1991. Reproduced: p. 198

Murray, Gale B. Toulouse-Lautrec: The Formative Years, 1878–1891. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Mentioned: pp. xvii, 167-70, 249; Reproduced: p. 168

Murray, Gale B. Toulouse-Lautrec: A Retrospective. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin, 1992. Mentioned: p. 102; Reproduced: p. 103

Frey, Julia Bloch. Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life. London: Phoenix, 1994. Mentioned: pp. 245-46

Mendelowitz, Daniel M., and Duane A. Wakeham. A Guide to Drawing. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 2000. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 37

DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned: pp. 140-141, p. 291, no. 56; Reproduced: p. 141

Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints. London: Sotheby's, 2001. Mentioned: p. 130, under no. 262

Scharf, Julietta, and Hanna Strzoda. Die Historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2012. Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 2, p. 221, no. 1366

Prat, Louis-Antoine. “L’Enfer des Juliette.” In Toulouse-Lautrec: Résolument moderne, edited by Stéphane Guégan. Exh. cat. Paris: Musée d’Orsay, 2019. Mentioned: p. 287

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, Edgar Degas, and Florence Saragoza. Quand Toulouse-Lautrec regarde Degas. Albi : Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, 2022. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 61-62, fig. 32

Salsbury, Britany. Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023. Reproduced: p. 126, no.19

Exhibition history

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864–1901. Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (June–July 1966).

Toulouse-Lautrec: Exhibition Organized in Collaboration with the Albi Museum. Philadelphia Museum of Art (organizer) (October 29-December 11, 1955); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (January 2-February 15, 1956).

Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 20-May 6, 1956).

Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

French Drawings of the 1800's. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (April 22-May 29, 1962).

A Generation of Draughtsmen. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (April 25-May 29, 1962).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Toulouse-Lautrec. Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY (February 7-March 14, 1964).

19th and 20th Century Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 24, 1965).

French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1965-February 16, 1966).

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901. MAK, the Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, Austria (organizer).

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. MAK, the Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, Austria (June 2-July 31, 1966).

Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 31-August 19, 1979).

Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (organizer) (January 24-March 22, 1981); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (April 9-June 14, 1981).

Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983).

Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).

Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023).

Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 8, 2023-January 14, 2024).

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