Monsieur Boileau at the Café

Monsieur Boileau at the Café

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

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Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)
Medium: Oil and tempera with charcoal on millboard
Size: Sheet: 80.3 x 65 cm (31 5/8 x 25 9/16 in.)
Culture: France, 19th century
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art
Rights: CC0 — no rights reserved

Cleveland’s 1925 purchase of this work by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec marked the first acquisition of one of the artist’s drawings by a museum in the United States. Its subject, Monsieur Boileau, was a gossip columnist known to drink heavily at Le Mirliton, a nightclub. Here, saturated, acidic tones evoke the room’s gas lamps and thinned oil paint absorbs into its support, producing texture that complements the scene’s grittiness. In his own time, Toulouse-Lautrec was considered a portraitist for such depictions of friends and other inhabitants of his neighborhood. He preferred drawing for its immediacy, using it to record his sitters’ personalities through materials and formal choices.

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