Portrait of Jeanne Wenz by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Portrait of Jeanne Wenz

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1886

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Given by the artist to Arthur-Paul Huc, Toulouse [see Roqué 1999]. Paul Rosenberg, Paris, by 1912 [see Dortu 1971]. Pierre Decourcelle, Paris, by at least 1914 [lent by him to Paris 1914]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 16, 1926, no. 78, for 63,000 francs, to Jerome Stonborough [according to annotated copy of the Decourcelle sale catalogue in the library of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; copy in curatorial file]; Jerome Stonborough (died 1938), New York; his estate sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, October 17, 1940, no. 70; Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, Nov. 17, 1940 [according to the Rosenberg ledger, no. 120, Museum of Modern Art, New York, copy in curatorial file and letter of May 5, 1977, from Alexandre Rosenberg, who stated that the firm acquired the painting on 17 November, 1940, from the estate of Stonborough]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, October 3, 1941.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Paris, Galerie Manzi, Joyant, Exposition rétrospective de l’oeuvre de H. de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), June 15-July 11, 1914, no. 73.
  • Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Paintings, Drawings, Prints, and Posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, March 6-April 20, 1947, no. 12.
  • Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center, 19th and 20th Century European and American Art: The Opening Exhibition of the New Des Moines Art Center, June-July 1948, no. 112.
  • Saginaw, Mich., Saginaw Museum, Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Painting at the Saginaw Museum, December 19, 1948-January 9, 1949, no. 29.
  • Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Paintings by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, October 20-November 19, 1950, no cat.
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Toulouse-Lautrec. Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Albi Museum, October 29-December 11, 1955; Art Institute of Chicago, January 2-February 15, 1956, no. 9
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs, March 20-May 6, 1956, no. 4.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Co., Inc., Loan Exhibition: Toulouse-Lautrec. For the benefit of the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, Inc., February 7-March 14, 1964, no. 10.
  • Vienna, Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, June-July 1966, no. 7.
  • Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists, October 22-December 8, 1968, no. 85.
  • Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum, Mary Cassatt Among the Impressionists, April 10-June 1, 1969, no. 47.
  • Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits 1600-1900 in the Art Institute of Chicago, July 8-September 11, 1978, no. 19.

Literature

Published references

  • Maurice Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, peintre (Paris: H. Floury, 1926), p. 261.
  • Paul Eymieux, “Les Ventes,” L’Art Vivant (July 1, 1926), p. 519 (ill.).
  • Georges Charensol, “Les Ventes,” L’Amour de l’Art 7 (1926), p. 252.
  • “Les Ventes,” Le Bulletin de l’Art, no. 731 (1926), p. 266.
  • Gustave Coquiot, “L’art d’aujourd’hui: une collection,” La Renaissance de l’art français et des industries de luxe, 9, 5 (1926), p. 276 (ill.).
  • Maurice Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, vol. II, (New York: Arno Press, 1927), p. 8.
  • Dorothy Odenheimer, “An Early Work by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 36, 4 (1942), pp. 49-51, cover (ill.).
  • Dorothy Bridaham, Toulouse-Lautrec in the Art Institute of Chicago (Zurich: 1954), pl. 3.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1956), p. 36.
  • Henri Perruchot, La Vie de Toulouse-Lautrec (Paris: 1958), p. 122, no. 1.
  • François Daulte, “Plus vrai que nature,” L’Oeil, no. 70 (1960), p. 54 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 286 (ill.), 453.

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