Elles – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique lithograph captures Elles in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The caption card's imprint names the publisher, Gustave Pellet of the Quai Voltaire, and an exhibition at La Plume on the rue Bonaparte beginning April 22, 1896. The print belongs to *Elles*, a set of ten color lithographs Toulouse-Lautrec made that year after spending long stretches in Paris brothels, where he drew women between clients, at rest, and in private moments. Rather than showing them as glamorous figures of the stage, he presented them plainly and without judgment. Look for the flat fields of color and the tightly cropped compositions, which owe much to Japanese woodblock prints that had shaped European graphic art since the 1860s.
| Created / published | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, col. |
| Notes | Color lithograph by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901. Delteil, 179; with text undescribed: Lithographies/editées par/G. Pellet/9, Quai Voltaire à Paris/Exposées à la Plume/31, Rue Bonaparte, à partir du/22 Avril 1896. Pennell fund. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,101 × 1,400 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172731 |
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