Elles (Frontispiece)
1896 · Colour lithograph · Cleveland Museum of Art
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About this work
- Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901)
- Year
- 1896
- Medium
- Colour lithograph
- Original size
- 52.4 × 40.5 cm
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
A woman in a loose dressing gown sits on the edge of a bed, her hair down, her hat and a top hat laid beside her on the pillow; the word Elles is lettered above in Toulouse-Lautrec's hand. This is the frontispiece and poster of Elles, the portfolio of ten colour lithographs of the women of the maisons closes that he published with Gustave Pellet in 1896 and exhibited at La Plume's Salon des Cent. The model was the clowness Cha-U-Kao. The muted grey-green and the pink of the gown, the unhurried pose and the absence of any customer make the series the gentlest record of that world. Printed by Auguste Clot, Paris. The impression reproduced belongs to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A quiet grey-green sheet with one seated figure, for a bedroom, dressing room or study at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black, no mat. It suits a white or dove-grey wall and pairs with Jane Avril (1899).
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1896)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- bedroom, study or library, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — dark wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
The full-bleed edition
The painting printed edge to edge, filling the whole sheet (very slightly cropped to fit) — and available on gallery-wrapped canvas.
