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The Photographer Sescau

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (AKA Henri-Marie-Ramond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa), French, (November 24, 1864–September 9, 1901)

Creation date: 1896

Creation place: France

Other Information

Type: Poster

Medium and Support: Lithograph, poster

Credit Line: Gift of the Baldwin M. Baldwin Foundation

Accession Number: 1987.51

Dimensions: 23 1/2 in. x 30 7/8 in. (59.69 cm x 78.42 cm)

Provenance

Baldwin M. Baldwin, Newport Beach, California ( - June 5, 1987)

Label Copy

Since its invention in the early nineteenth century, photography had offered new perspectives on the modern city. The portrait photographer Nadar had used a hot-air balloon in 1889 to take aerial pictures of Paris and the newly completed Eiffel Tower. Lautrec, however, takes a less elevated view of his friend the photographer Paul Sescau. Carousing with Lautrec’s cousin, Sescau is depicted on the prowl at the Moulin Rouge in a lithograph entitled The Promenade (also exhibited in this gallery). Sescau had a reputation for luring young ladies with his photography and is fused in this poster with the leering lens of his camera.
Last Updated: 3/28/2011

Exhibition

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Prints, and Los Angeles Municipal Art Department , 5/27/1959 - 6/28/1959

[no title] The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor , 1/1/1965 - 12/31/1965

The Baldwin M. Baldwin Foundation Collection: Graphics and Other Works by HT-L San Diego Museum of Art , 12/19/1980 - 2/1/1981

Toulouse-Lautrec: The Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection San Diego Museum of Art , 10/15/1988 - 1/9/2006

Toulouse-Lautrec: The Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection , 5/11/1996 - 1/9/2006

High Societies: San Diego Museum of Art , 5/26/2001 - 8/12/2001

Toulouse-Lautrec's Paris: Selections from the Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection San Diego Museum of Art , 7/10/2010 - 12/12/2010

Bibliography

This object has the following bibliographic references:

Ms. Nora Desloge. Toulouse-Lautrec: San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1988-1998
Page Number: 242, 243, Figure Number: 101

The Baldwin M. Baldwin Foundation Collection: San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1980
Figure Number: 39

Laura Maggioni, ed. Toulouse-Lautrec: Skira editore. Milano, Italia, 2003
Page Number: 255, Figure Number: III.24

Laura Maggioni, ed. Toulouse-Lautrec: Skira editore. Milano, Italia, 2003
Page Number: 314 no. III.24

Marks

Monogram, Lower right:

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