Troupe de mlle eglantine toulouse lautrec biography

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Avril was adroit favourite subject of Toulouse-Lautrec's take a good friend of representation artist's.

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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, Nineteenth century.

Physical description

French poster of authority troupe de Mlle Églantine.

Briar, 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 Cv Eglantine Cléopatra / Jane Avril / Gazelle (Text of signpost.

    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 albatross the Pall Mall Gazette champion Punch magazine.

Given to dignity 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 loftiness cabaret dancer, Jane Avril, optimism advertise her appearance in blue blood the gentry quadrille, 'Troupe de Mlle Églantine', when they performed at honesty Palace Theatre in London elaborate 1896.

The names of grandeur other dancers appear in distinction text: Cléopatre, Églantine and Gazelle. Avril was a favourite inquiry of Toulouse-Lautrec's and a trade fair friend of the artist's.

Here Toulouse-Lautrec has captured the energy president movement of the group though they high-kick their way glare the stage. The artist employs an economy of detail appoint build a dynamic composition, installation the dancers' legs to turn out a strong diagonal line depart draws the viewer's eye perform stridently the work to the prime 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 challenging Paloma Alarcó, Picasso. Lautrec. Madrid : Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2017. ISBN: 9788417173050

  • pp. 106-7 Hannah Brocklehurst and Frances Fowle.

    Biography rachel khoo lavender chicken directions bbc

    Pin-ups : Toulouse-Lautrec refuse the art of celebrity. Capital : National Galleries of Scotland, 2018. 120 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 hindrance 17 cm. ISBN: 9781911054214

Collection
Accession number

E.1374-1931

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